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[–] 183 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not everyone can cough up the cash for some free-range organic black hole.

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  • [–] 127 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Don't buy lab-grown black holes, it's not quite the same if it's not mined by a child in South Africa. And it should cost at least three times your salary, otherwise your spouse will be ashamed.

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  • [–] 111 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Maybe not the actual referenced article, but its close:

    https://www.livescience.com/black-hole-analog-confirms-hawking.html

    While the study was testing for a specific kind of energy radiated by an artificial micro black hole...

    What's being glossed over is the broad concept and implications of Hawking Radiation.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation

    Simply put, a tiny micro black hole will evaporate itself out of existence quite rapidly.

    There is no danger of such a thing growing and consuming everything like an expanding katamari damacy ball.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    There is no danger of such a thing growing and consuming everything like an expanding katamari damacy ball.

    Damn.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    What is the minimum size until it will grow faster than it evaporates? And can we make one if we try really hard?

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    https://www.vttoth.com/CMS/physics-notes/311-hawking-radiation-calculator

    Indeed, any black hole with a mass greater than about 0.75% of the Earth's mass is colder than the cosmic background, and thus its mass increases for now. As the universe expands and cools, however, eventually the black hole may begin to lose mass-energy through Hawking radiation.

    Size isn't actually the main factor, mass is.

    A teaspoon of what neutron stars are made of weighs as much as Mt. Everest.

    Its the mass thats important, and apparently the threshold for an actually stable black hole is 0.75% the mass of Earth, 4.48 x 10²² kg .... or, roughly 2/3 the mass of the Moon.

    (The Moon's mass is roughly 1/81th that of Earth's. It ks far, far less dense.)

    So... basically 0 chance in our natural life times we'll figure out how to convert the Moon into a blackhole, lol.

    EDIT:

    There... could theoretically be a wandering black hole of aporoximately that mass... but even if it entered our solar system, chances are it would just get thrown out, deflected by Jupiter and the Sun, and it would only maybe eat some ice in the Kuiper belt, dust and maybe very small asteroids in the asteroid belt if it somehow made it past Jupiter.

    Black holes don't have infinite gravitational vaccuum power that extends infinitely, because they do not have infinite mass.

    if they did, the occurence of one would instantly eat the entire universe at the speed of gravity, which is the speed of light.

    They have as much gravity as their mass says they should, and they obey the same orbital dynamics as every other massive celestial body.

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    [–] 93 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    If you can't grow your own black holes, store-bought is fine.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's not that hard, all you needs a little Scots turf builder black hole edition.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I keep hearing commericals for them advertising to kill clover. Always annoys me. If clover grows in your yard, your yard likely needs the nutrients (nitrogen likely). Also, it helps bee populations, which helps well... Life.

    Clover was never a weed until weed killer came around out and killed it with everything else in the grass. So they started an ad campaign that told people it was a weed and convinced people that white flowers in your yard look bad.

    So now everytime I hear an advertisement that mentions killing clover I remind myself not to buy products by the brand who says it. Also, clover honey is delicious.

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    [–] 85 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Cabin in the Woods

    Who had 'Lab grown Black Hole?'

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    [–] 65 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Us developing an actual black hole would be one of the best things humanity has ever done. It would kinda be like inventing techniques to make fire.

    We could throw shit around the orbit of the black hole and get fusion. Not just deuterium fusion! Even proton proton fusion. Our energy needs would be solved practically forever.

    We could conduct a crazy amount of experiments on the black hole, see quantum effects of gravity and whatnot.

    Maybe we could build one of em Alcubierre drives that don't need exotic matter?

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Can you imagine what a "black hole fusion accident" could look like?

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Yeah.

    Then somebody drops it and it just falls down to the planet's core and eats our fucking world.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Ok, so even if it "falls down", it will probably evaporate way before it even reaches the center. Even if it doesn't, it will be take A VERY LONG TIME for it to get big enough to eat the planet out or whatever.

    It is very VERY difficult to make something fall inside a black hole. Mostly, stuff just zooms right past it at incredible speeds.

    The earth would be consumed by the sun way before it gets consumed by a black hole.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Tiny black holes are the kind of thing that physically cant exist for more than a few like picosecods or something ridiculous like that before evaporating into radio waves.

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    [+] 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Did they drop "analogue" or "simulated" from the title?

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  • [+] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)
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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    There isn't enough mass in our solar system to sustain a black hole, less on a scientists' research budget.

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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "i have become death destroyer of worlds"

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    mom can we adopt a lab grown black hole?

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