Does this also mean that black holes are totally indestructible?
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JPSound@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Literally, impossible. To exit the event horizon of a black hole, you’d have to travel faster than the speed of light. We know for a fact that anything with mass cannot travel at the speed of light. (And anything without mass MUST travel at the speed of light) Once you cross the event horizon, you’ve been entirely and irreversibly separated from the rest of the universe.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Basically.
They slowly decay as hawking radiation, but there’s nothing you can do to speed up the process.
JPSound@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well, there’s the hypothesis of a “naked singularity” whereas if enough charge or spin could be added to a black hole, the event horizon, aka, the black part of a black hole, could just vanish. This would expose the singularity at its center but its just a hypothesis. Or better yet, a thought experiment at best. This wouldn’t eliminate its mass though.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
And anything without mass MUST travel at the speed of light
You’re not the boss of me! I do what i want!
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s not even about needing to exceed the speed of light. Once you cross the event horizon, spacetime around you is so warped that “out” doesn’t exist anymore. Point your ship in any direction and fire up your FTL engine; it doesn’t matter. No matter which way you try and fly your ship, you’ll be getting closer to the center. Once you cross the event horizon, there is literally no way out.
JPSound@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I love how mind bending it is imagining what lies inside a black hole. Everything we know about physics essentially goes right out the window beyond the event horizon.