Questions tagged [black-holes]
For questions about a region of space time where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape it.
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Assuming there was a spaceship that could counter-act the effects of being near a black hole, could a human observe the hole dissipating?
The most common explanation of what would happen to a space-ship that falls towards a black hole ends with spaghettification.
However imagine there was a space-ship built out of unobtanium, that could ...
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Schwarzschild Metric in a universe with the same space time metric as that described in the orthogonal series, but with massive gravitons?
The universe described in the orthogonal series is one, in which the minus sign in the space time interval is replaced with a plus sign. So this universe has four fundamentally similar dimensions ...
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Does my concept for an "ergosphere highway" make scientific sense?
In my current science-based project, I have this idea for a string of rotating black holes (bonus points if you can figure out how they can be lined up without gravitating towards each other) that are ...
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Elemental Foundry - Quasar powered post-ferrous material fabricator
What is this and what does it do?
(this has got to play in the background)
The the belief that most matter is concentrated in galaxies is false. A relatively huge portion of the matter in our universe ...
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Can a single, larger black hole be split into multiple smaller black holes?
Essentially, my question is, can one larger black hole be split into a system of smaller black holes?
I'm assuming energy requirements will be prohibitive, and that it may not be possible without ...
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Methods to move supermassive black holes?
There is an advanced civilization that need to move the supermassive blackholes (SMBH) of their galaxies.
I have seen some similar questions on here but the ones I have read are for moving much ...
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What are the most compact batteries to store energy from my quazar power plant?
In my previous question, I dealt with the possibility of harvesting the energy of the accretion disk and jets of a quasar Milky Way, by the use of multiple mirrors and panels that are orbiting around ...
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Moving a black hole
What (if any) would be a viable option for moving a black hole with a similar mass to our moon? The black hole is not very far away (i.e disregard difficulties in reaching it). Ideally, there should ...
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Exploring a Black hole sci fi possible/not possible
I'm currently creating a universe and in that universe is the human race which has been around for about 37000 years. I am currently trying to figure out what tech they would have access to what would ...
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Turning a star into a black hole
**(context, skip over if you want)**Imagine a type II alien civilization that spans a large portion of its galaxy. The only reason it’s gotten this far is becuase of their aggression, but there is ...
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How close would a black hole need to be for humans to have discovered it before theorizing it?
Black holes were first seriously theorized in the early 20th century, but it took many decades before one could be observed; depending on your definition of "observe," this may have occurred ...
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The Moon turns into a black hole of the same mass -- what happens next?
If there were a black hole orbiting an inhabited planet, with the gravity of a typical moon (e.g our moon, orbiting a similarly weighted planet to ours), what practical differences would arise when ...
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Protect a planet against a black hole attack
Suppose in a very very long future, humans have become relative powerful military force in galactic politics due to a very powerful weapon: the ability of creating black holes wherever we want. Now we ...
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How big a telescope would we need to see the light distortion effects of a black hole the mass of the Moon, at the distance of the Moon?
Fairly straightforward. I suspect that we'd notice the gravitational effects of it long before we'd be able to see it, but at what point in history would people start noticing that stars jitter around ...
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How can I hit a planet with an energy beam from ten lightyears away?
My interstellar empire is powered by a quasar.
Or at least it will be once I finish my scheme.
See that cloud of glowing dust? That's called the quasar's accretion disc. When stuff falls into the ...
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How much energy would a Type III civilisation get from a Quasar Milky Way per day?
Let's say, (in the far future), that humans have become really advanced beings and are at the verge of becoming a Type III civilisation. Now, they need a gargantuan energy source for various purposes, ...
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Finding out the mass of a black hole for it to last ten thousand years
In my story, one of the characters essentially possesses something akin to true invulnerability and is essentially immortal due to [redacted]. In this part of the story, a group of terrorists with ...
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Possible uses for time dilation in the ergosphere of a black hole?
A common use for time dilation in science fiction is for a ship moving at speeds close to the speeds of light and for those on the ship the journey takes less time than for those observing at another ...
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Could black holes be used as a particle accelerator
I was originally was thinking of using the Jets emitted by black holes to create antimatter, however those might not fit the setting I want, due to the fact they are don't seem to occur commonly in ...
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Can a Birch planet send information out?
Theoretically if a Birch planet is built around the event horizon of an ultra massive blackhole, if there was a planet or structure outside of range to experience time dilation, self maintained ...
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Racing Around the Edge of a Black Hole
I am trying to understand the physics of an interstellar race.
Say two ships are racing past a black hole as if it were a corner on a race track. One of the ships takes a hard line and comes very ...
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Surviving time travel using black holes or wormholes
Operating under the assumption that it is possible to use a black hole or wormhole to travel forward in time by a relatively small amount of time (e.g. 2,000 years) without travelling a significant ...
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How would future galactic civilizations deal with the Big Rip? Could they escape it or hide anywhere, like inside black holes? [closed]
Humans colonized all the stars in the Milky Way in the first million years. In the next 200 million years they conquered all the planets in the Local Group. In the next few billion they conquered all ...
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How would a high escape velocity effect conditions on a low gravity Birch planet?
A birch planet is a theoretical far future Giga-structure where a shell world is built around a supermassive blackhole. I have been playing around with different astrophysical calculators to find out ...
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Causing a black hole [closed]
So in my concept, humanity needs to permanently destroy an enemy planet. But their defense systems won’t allow the humans to get close enough to destroy the planet with whatever weaponry. Would it be ...
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Are Black Holes Military & Economic Assets? [closed]
I'm working on a sandbox astrophysics, economics and military simulation generator (there is no defined setting but I try to use real and hypothesized science for the most part) where different types ...
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Aliens exist on the other side of the nearby wormhole, but we don't know wormhole exists yet. How might they be detected and communicated with?
Scenario: Humans have setup an observation/research station close enough to study the super blackhole Sagittarius A*, which in this world is a wormhole. Aliens exist on the other side. (I am flexible ...
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Preventing black hole formation in a water-filled universe
Imagine a universe full of water. A comfortable 22 degrees Celsius warm, density of about 998 grams per liter, and it fills up everything for as far as can be observed. There's nothing else; neither ...
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Gentle transformation of Moon into a black hole
I like Willk's idea of targeting something by boomerang-ing almost luminal neutrons in the gravitational field of the Moon. But that's not gonna happen without making Moon a lot denser.
Question: can ...
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Socio-economic effects of a black hole on a civilization [closed]
Suppose a "solar system", or "black-holar system"?, in which the star is replaced by a black hole. There is no source of energy, I know, but somehow an advanced civilization ...
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Could Hawking radiation illuminate an enclosed habitat?
Could visible hawking radiation be used to illuminate an enclosed space in a way that would be useful to a human? The specific space would be habitable for the human, and be close enough to the black ...
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Throttling a black hole engine?
So, building artificial black holes is Really Hard. And when they get too small, they go out in a Really Big Dangerous Bang.
Thus, if you manage to build, e.g., a kugelblitz factory that produces mini-...
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Through natural means, what could protect a rocky planet from intense x-rays from a black hole WITHOUT the expense of creating life?
I thought I had it.
I thought I had finally found the solar system with enough light to produce hundreds if not thousands of Earths. I thought that a black hole 12 billion times more massive than our ...
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Habitability zone around a Supermassive Black Hole
I have just found perhaps the biggest thing in the universe: A black hole named SDSS J010013.02+280225.8. It itself is 12 billion times more massive than our sun, and its accretion disk is 439 ...
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Space-based black hole weapon effects
For the fluff of my story one of the space-ships is equipped with what I hope is one of the biggest F-you weapons in ship-to-ship combat: a miniature black hole launcher.
The launcher fires a whopping ...
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How would intelligent life adapt on a black hole planet?
The world I'm building, Qi'raad, orbits a stellar-mass black hole. How would life best adapt to survive? Also, the black hole, named Halku, emits a relatively thin radio jet, which has carved a large ...
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The Source of Gravity Based Destruction
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It's the year 4000 (or whatever), and mankind has cheated FTL travel. As a result of this 'cheating' rather than solving, however, they can't easily go beyond their borders.
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How long could a planet or moon survive if it had an Earth mass black hole within it?
How long could a planet or moon survive if it had an Earth mass black hole within it?
Hypothetical primordial black hole formed soon after the Big Bang, or low mass black holes formed later by some ...
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Could black holes made of matter and antimatter explode if they were to collide? [closed]
Let's say you have two same-mass black holes, about 10 solar masses each, but while one is made of pure matter, the other is made of pure antimatter. Obviously no amount of energy produced could ...
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It would be possible to enter and exit a black hole using a Warp Drive? [closed]
Well, a Warp Drive expands and contracts space, passing it through you, technically allowing faster than light travel.
And so, it would be possible to actually enter a black hole and thus, exit it?
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What would the effects be on the surrounding landmasses if a 1mm black hole appeared on the earths surface for 5 seconds? [duplicate]
First of all I've read the other posts and know what the effects of a black hole appearing on the earth's surface is. It goes through the crust, the tectonic plates break apart, volcanos appear ...
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What would be the geographical effects on a map of a 1mm black hole on the earths surface for 5 seconds? [duplicate]
First of all I've read the other posts and know what the effects of a black hole appearing on the earth's surface is. It goes through the crust, the tectonic plates break apart, volcanos appear ...
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Using transfinite numbers in a scifi story
I have been bandying about some exotic mathematics ideas as the basis for a hard scifi setting, and I wonder what technology/alien life would "make sense," here, given the physics arising ...
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Would it be possible to make a black hole using the Bose-Einstein condensate?
Well, my crazy question is whether it would be possible to make a "dyson sphere", but with the sonic black hole made with Bose-Einstein condensate (and whether it would be possible to create ...
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The Science behind Miller's Planet [closed]
In the movie Interstellar, Miller's planet is an ocean planet orbiting extremely close to a black hole. The ridiculous tidal effects caused by the black hole cause the planet's water to concentrate ...
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How would a space probe determine its distance from a black hole while orbiting around it?
Let's say that a space probe is sent to swing once around a black hole. Now, as long as our knowledge of physics goes, if the spaceship stays outside the event horizon it can, at least in principle, ...
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Effects of Black Hole Macron Accelerators
So far, my previous Black Hole Gun has seen interesting results. However, I also thought back to the Black Hole Launcher, and how to make the Black Hole itself a "projectile".
There are a ...
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How can black holes be used for daredevil gravity slingshot sport?
This is set in the same universe as my Andromeda galactic war question (same tech level). In this question, I had somewhat purposely labelled the galactic core as "off-limits" (black holes and other ...
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Justifying Reverse Time Dilation / Time Acceleration using White Holes
I am not sure if this should go to the Physics Stack Exchange or here, but here goes.
So, I heard about the time reversed variant of black holes, known as white holes, which expel matter rather than ...
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energy sources for intergalactic travel in fictitious universe with similar laws of known physics but different evolution
This question differs slightly from the many excellent threads on topics similar to this one. In the fictional universe I am contemplating, the same laws of physics apply as in ours, but because of a ...
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