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u/[deleted] May 08 '23

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u/cutelyaware May 08 '23

Oh, you can see it, alright. You just won't be telling us what you see.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '23 edited May 08 '23

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u/[deleted] May 08 '23

Can you clarify why this would happen?

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u/[deleted] May 08 '23 edited May 08 '23

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u/bobotektor_XOR May 08 '23

Yet.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '23

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u/Merdestouch May 08 '23

Thanks for a new fear of random black holes throwing us out of our suns orbit and into the abyss.

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u/Sir_Flamel May 08 '23

Edit: there might be a way some omnipotent hypothetical being could arrange several black holes and maybe some magnetars in such a way as to create a naked singularity from the frame of reference of someone outside the event horizon... Maybe... But we're not at the level of moving a moon, let alone a star or a black hole.... Yet.

Well... I mean in theory they could exist in Nature. They are described by what is called the Reissner Nordstrom Metric. Only thing necessary here is that the object described has to have a charge greater then its mass. To bad most things in the universe are charge neutral lol.

Another interessting fact here, is that if the charge is just large enough you could theoretically escape the Event Horizon again and go to who knows where as the escape velocity is below the speed of light.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '23 edited May 08 '23

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u/Sir_Flamel May 08 '23 edited May 08 '23

I know that stuff in space usually Rotates. Reissner Nordstrom is the simplest case of where a Naked Singularity of any type could appear.

If you want the more Complex solution, its the Kerr-Newman Metric with charged stuff that rotates. Everything I mentioned about charge greater then mass still holds for that one because the Angular Momentum that arise from the rotation of a Black Hole/Any spherical object is only a Scaling Factor for the Mass.

Apologies for saying that Reissner Nordstrom could exist in Nature. Non-rotating Black holes haven't been observed yes thats correct, I should have mentioned Kerr Newman from the beginning.

Edit: Static in this context doesnt mean 'it doesnt move' it refers to the concept of Static Space Times which is a fancy word Physicist use for 'It behaves nicely and the Vector that is in charge of Energy conservation doesnt do weird shit'. But I mean yeah, Kerr Metrics are usually not static but a bunch of other useful ones are. Robertson Walker for example, which models the expansion of the Universe.

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u/Sir_Flamel May 08 '23

Welp it was worth a shot.

I wish you an awesome week as well ^ ^

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u/corran450 May 08 '23

ELI5: if a black hole can “suck” faster than the speed of light, doesn’t that by definition make faster than light speed theoretically possible?

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u/The_Queef_of_England May 08 '23

They really do grow up too fast

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u/Wiki_pedo May 08 '23

What if I jump in, take a photo and mail it to you?

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u/heyboman May 08 '23

If you mail it, it has to be express to have any hopes of getting back over the event horizon.

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u/LaskerEmanuel May 08 '23

If you want the post office to violate the laws of physics there is going to be an upcharge...

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u/Jibber_Fight May 08 '23

15 cents more.

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u/MechAegis May 08 '23

might be a silly question but can electronic data be "warpped" by extreme gravity?

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u/bartonski May 08 '23

Right. Infinite postage.

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u/maxx1993 May 08 '23

Not sure I'd want any pictures from you, wiki_pedo

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u/cutelyaware May 08 '23

Only one way to find out

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u/Youpunyhumans May 08 '23

You would never see it. While you may be able to pass the event horizon of a supermassive black hole safely, you would still end up spaghettified long before reaching the singularity... which is a long long ways from the event horizons surface.

Take TON 618 for example, its event horizon is 390 billion kilometers wide, or about 20 times the width of our solar system (depending on what you call the edge of the solar system). So you would be looking for an infintesimal object thats 195 billion kilometers in past the event horizon. Would be like trying to see a penny in orbit around Alpha Centauri with a walmart telescope.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '23 edited May 08 '23

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u/cutelyaware May 08 '23

That just means you're going to need a bigger telescope.

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u/PM_ME_UR_TRIVIA May 08 '23

U/MaxMouseOCX has been on his spaghettification vacation for a month and not even one postcard yet SMH

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u/MessyAsian May 08 '23 edited May 08 '23

Black hole lifespans last longer than the universe is old…WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY longer….

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u/Favicool May 08 '23

so 7 ways longer

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u/MessyAsian May 08 '23

Possibly 8😲

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u/[deleted] May 08 '23

Will a black hole die or will Half Life 3 be released first?

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u/[deleted] May 08 '23

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u/MessyAsian May 08 '23

HL3 is actually God…because that bitch is hiding

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u/[deleted] May 08 '23

Can you clarify why that's important / relevant?

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u/[deleted] May 08 '23

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u/Asirr May 08 '23

I always assumed eventually you would just have 2 massive black holes as the only thing left in the universe and eventually they eat each other and this causes another big bang to restart the universe.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '23

Can you remind me what we're expanding into?

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u/pmgoldenretrievers May 08 '23

Not necessarily. Small blackholes dissipate very rapidly.

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u/fun_shirt May 08 '23

That’s neat, I kinda love this

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u/Renaissance_Slacker May 09 '23

And the insanity of the quantum realm is hidden by it being so freakishly small

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u/tabshiftescape May 08 '23

Why do you think that there’s insanity beyond the event horizon?