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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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I started receiving tips from several sources that said Microsoft was shuffling its roadmap for Hololens which resulted in the second iteration of the device being canceled. "Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three."
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This is a follow-up to Kent's original post from Feb 14th:
Microsoft delays February 2017 security updates due to "last minute issue"[^]
The MSRC Team have updated the blog entry, now stating
UPDATE: 2/15/17: We will deliver updates as part of the planned March Update Tuesday, March 14, 2017.
(I know I'm late to the party and the update has been posted a while ago - But I never heard anything after Kent's post so I went and looked)
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Marco Bertschi (SFC) wrote: Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Thereinafter known as Blue-screen Tuesday.
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Marco Bertschi (SFC) wrote: The Screen color matches your theme colors
Colours?
These days, you only get to pick one colour -- and then you're lucky if the OS doesn't override it.
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Disney researchers, on the other hand, are working on spaces that power and charge devices just by placing them in the room. Does it feel warm in here?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Does it feel warm in here?
Would you like to get into something more comfortable?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Sean's got something more ... permissive ... in his cabinet. If you ask nicely, he'll supply the nipple tassles as well.
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Such a thoughtful dungeon master *puts on gimp mask and pulls out D&D 3.5* 
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