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To: Telepathic Intruder

Theorhetically mini black holes are produced naturally all the time but they dissipate in nanoseconds. As I understand it, black holes require a certain ammount of mass for them to be sustained.


8 posted on 12/05/2009 4:44:10 PM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: cripplecreek
black holes require a certain ammount of mass for them to be sustained.

Yeah, but is that mass a rock, a planet, or does it require a whole galaxy? It's important to know these things.

10 posted on 12/05/2009 4:47:29 PM PST by UCANSEE2
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To: cripplecreek

That’s because of Hawking radiation. The smaller a black hole is, the quicker it evaporates. The rate of evaporation becomes exponential with mass loss, and anything lighter than about a mountain will not gain further mass because the radiation pressure will exceed its gravity. But at that point, it won’t last long anyway. Hawking theorized all this using generally-accepted physics.


13 posted on 12/05/2009 4:49:07 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The right thing is not always the popular thing)
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