Posted on 09/24/2014 12:36:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin
That’s the conclusion reached by one researcher from the University of North Carolina: black holes can’t exist in our Universe — not mathematically, anyway.
“I’m still not over the shock,” said Laura Mersini-Houghton, associate physics professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. “We’ve been studying this problem for a more than 50 years and this solution gives us a lot to think about.”
In a news article spotlighted by UNC the scenario suggested by Mersini-Houghton is briefly explained. Basically, when a massive star reaches the end of its life and collapses under its own gravity after blasting its outer layers into space — which is commonly thought to result in an ultra-dense point called a singularity surrounded by a light- and energy-trapping event horizon — it undergoes a period of intense outgoing radiation (the sort of which was famously deduced by Stephen Hawking.) This release of radiation is enough, Mersini-Houghton has calculated, to cause the collapsing star to lose too much mass to allow a singularity to form. No singularity means no event horizon… and no black hole.
(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...
They’re also in contradiction to Einstein’s theories of physics.
Its where the other sock goes from the clothes dryer.
I think, therefore I am a black hole.
I think that each of you is a figment of my imagination.
I think that each of you may be the soul of a lost sock.
Why, pray tell, is there only one of each of you?
Beats me - I find it ever so comforting at times like these to admit to being a dumb redneck. But the OP makes sense to me - If it is massively discharging mass, how then can it be accruing mass, or even sustain the mass necessary maintain a singularity? Anyway, the idea that something as massive as our sun could become so dense as to fit in my pocket has always been beyond comprehension.
And why, if a singularity is formed, doesn't it's massive mass simply discharge out the tail of the black hole anyway?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!
If I have to look at one more artist’s rendering of a black hole I’m going to scream! Oh wait...
Black holes have tails?
Ya learn something new every day.
Nope, not a parody. And I am referring to the progressive-rock trio from Canada, not the rotund pundit. :)
And a lot of my socks!
But just the left ones...
“Since my divorce,-—my socks have stopped disappearing.”
That’s when mine started disappearing! But I still blame the b-—h anyway!
Disagree. There is a black hole centered in Uranus.
Oh. MY. GOD!!
The poor guy is a quadriplegic. He barely has the use of the tips of one of his fingers. Cut him some slack. Lots of people go to strip clubs, and your Psalm this and Psalm that doesn't make you better.
um... you mean further study can change established facts?
Better not tell the environmental wackos!
I’ve long suspected there are quantum mechanical considerations that may preclude a singularity as opposed to a condition that ‘encourages’, but never allows it to actually take place.
Quantum theory can seem pretty damned strange.
He's got just as much right to be an icky perv as the next guy.
That’s not a bad bet, especially as there is not yet a decent theory for Quantum Gravity.
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