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Thank you, fixed.
TTFN - Kent
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So bits are falling off of a moving object, and they're surprised that it loses momentum?
What school did they study at? I'll put it on my blacklist for future generations of Wals.
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This explains what happens when I argue with my gf.
Marc
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But you might have to wait until 2018 to see what black holes actually look like. Are they using a really big flash?
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Is that like a while back, when they were going to provide fantastic data about stuff falling into black holes?
Or like one of the other three-dozen times when they were going to produce incredible proof of black holes?
Give it a couple of months; nothing will come of it, and the claim will be erased from memory.
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I'm just literally expecting this[^]... 
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I actually expect something more like this[^]
I know it has nothing to do with the film, but the point is... black hole is supposed to suck the light, but from a certain distance you can still see the light out of its gravity field
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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If black holes existed, they'd more likely look like the brightest stars in the sky.
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So why don't we call them bright holes? 
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Because people are so stuck on the idea "light can't escape" that they forget the laws of Physics.
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I though "light can't escape" was a law of Physics.
Then again, I'm not a physicist 
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heh.
It's an idea, not a law.
It's an "Ooooh! Woon' it be kewl if....!" idea, at that.
If you want to write a story:
0. Start with a silly idea.
1. Work on the science to back it up.
If you want to describe the universe, skip step 0.
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Only if (a) they had an accretion disk, or (b) they were so small that they were in the last stages of Hawking evaporation.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Is that also the reason why whirlpools and twisters are invisible?
A few million catastrophic events per second might just generate a teensy-weensy bit of light.
The only way for a black hole to be black is if it were to consume the entire universe.
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A black hole in vacuum (no mass nearby) has a temperature that is inversely proportional to its mass. This means that any black hole of stellar mass will have a temperature so low that it will absorb energy from the Cosmic Background Radiation, rather than radiate it.
If the black hole has mass nearby, it will typically "swallow" some of this mass. As the mass approaches the black hole it will typically (according to our models) form into an accretion disk. Collisions in the accretion disk (and other events) will cause the temperature of the disk to rise, making it radiate in the electromagnetic spectrum.
As matter falls into the Event Horizon, it will also release gravitational waves. These are only detectable in catastrophic cases (such as the merger of two black holes).
A very small black hole will have a temperature above that of the background, and so will radiate. This will cause it to shrink further, raising its temperature and causing it to radiate even more. Eventually, it will disappear in a blast of radiation.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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A black hole will always have mass nearby; it's a basic effect of gravity -- and the more the gravity, the more the effect.
Whatever is nearby -- in orbit/flying past/almost sucked in, in decaying distended ellipses -- will not be treated very gently.
Compression/decompression of matter causes heat, and therefore light -- and that's not to mention the effects on smaller particles/radiation, or plasma states caused by high-velocity/high energy collisions.
Never focus entirely on one thing; look at everything that could be affected, too. You'll get less unsupportable concepts (and fewer bugs) that way.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: A black hole will always have mass nearby;
Not really. A black hole doesn't have more mass than the star it was born from, and a planet in a stable orbit around a ten solar mass star will still be in a stable orbit around a 10 solar mass black hole. It's not going to "fall in" just because it's orbiting a black hole now.
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And now you're taking as read that a system can develop into a black hole without having any effect on things further out in, and indeed outside, the system before it becomes a black hole.
The mass doesn't change, you know. The mass required to make a black hole has to be there long before a black hole can form, and enough mass can only come together if a lot more surrounding mass doesn't become part of it.
It couldn't happen in a system like ours, because there isn't enough mass, so there's no point in thinking of it as if it happened in a system like ours.
On the same topic: I hate to break trekkies' hearts, but blowing up a sun does not change the mass of a system -- the mass is still there, and so is the gravitational attraction of that mass.
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We got the pictures; they're just black.
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The city with the highest-profile Linux desktop projects is turning back to Windows, but the fate of Linux isn't tied to the PC anymore. That's right, it's The Year of Linux
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Talking about servers and mobiles, Linux took it already... And now it is more precise to say that Windows loosing the desktop...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Or, rather, that windows users are losing the will to live.
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According to CNN, IBM researcher Charles Henderson says he sold a car several years ago and can still control it from his phone. "Baby, you can drive my car"
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That's why you should only buy a new car... 
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In olden times, this was known as "keeping the spare key".
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