Drevan said:slightly harsh perhaps odin, maiming would be fairer
Ayu said:It is like pouring acid on a black hole, it just won't improve it.
Liandra said:Actually, it will enlarge the black hole slightly, thus increasing the event horizon radius. This makes it more effective in sucking up all kinds of things, which could be seen as an improvement.
Daggstar said:it is an improvement unless the slight increase in the radius just happens to engulf more matter that ends up exponenetially increasing in size of the black whole until the whole universe is "eaten up" thus causing the end of the universe as we know it
Liandra said:Daggstar said:it is an improvement unless the slight increase in the radius just happens to engulf more matter that ends up exponenetially increasing in size of the black whole until the whole universe is "eaten up" thus causing the end of the universe as we know it
I am quite convinced that in the current state of the universe, this is not possible - or it would have happened already :?
Daggstar said:but the real question is - has anyone ever poured acid on a black hole?
Liandra said:Daggstar said:but the real question is - has anyone ever poured acid on a black hole?
If you pour acid on a black hole in a forest and nobody is around, does it still grow?
Johras said:Black holes only expand if Chuck Norris pays them a visit.
Nipstar said:Yes thnx for the enchant :lol:
Anonymous said:Sinds black holes move and can suck up stars (thus incearing their radius), our universe is doomed to become 1 big black hole....
Liandra said:Anonymous said:Sinds black holes move and can suck up stars (thus incearing their radius), our universe is doomed to become 1 big black hole....
Fortunately this is not true! Stephen Hawking "proved" (insofar you can prove things about black holes) that energy can actually escape from black holes. Near the event horizon, due to quantum fluctuations of the vacuum, a matter/antimatter particle pair can spontaneously come into existance for a very short time. Normally, these particles would live for a very short time and then collide and return their energy to the vacuum. However, if one is sucked up by the black hole and the other isn't, the black hole will lose energy equal to the energy of the particle that was 'emitted'.
In this way, black holes can vapourise and become smaller and smaller. It's a delicate balance between matter being sucked into it and radiation/energy escaping in the way described above.