[Video Credit & Copyright: Simulating Extreme Spacetimes Collaboration]
“The black regions indicate the event horizons of the dynamic duo”
An event horizon is basically the distance from the center of a black hole at which the escape velocity (the speed needed for something to break free from the gravitational field) exceeds the speed of light. The more mass a black hole contains, the further its event horizon extends into space. All massive objects have a specific escape velocity. For example, for Earth it’s about 18,000 miles/hr.
This is a racist event!
Black Holes Matter!
I promise you Sunken; I mean no offense to YOU whatsoever. You’re merely the messenger, and I love and marvel at the images you provide, and the explanations that accompany them. But.....
They really had me until the words “computer animation”. Yes, gullible me. I thought that perhaps Hubble or one of the other instruments had finally enabled us to SEE a black hole. Nobody has ever actually SEEN a black hole, have they? It’s just a theory or a concept, isn’t it? I’d seriously like to know.
And then I realized (computer animation) that this was right up there with R2D2, and Yoda, and computer models for climate change; which the Australian computer engineer who recently deconstructed the code being used in the climate change models, found that they had CO2 factored in at 10 times its actual existance in the atmosphere. They’re playing us in every direction. IMHO.
Thank you, Sunken. Sincerely.
...They usually demand reparations.