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Which way does a black hole spin?
As far as I understand, and from what I have been shown in renderings of black holes, they spin (like water going down a drain).
My question is, firstly, does the matter being pulled into a black
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A thought about Quasars
If Quasars are "beams" of energy exiting a super-massive black hole, in order for them to get through the black-hole's event horizon, they'd have to be traveling faster than the speed of light. My ...
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Spaghettification of humans near black holes
A few months ago I was discussing the spaghettification phenomenom with my wife, just for the fun of it. This was when the mass of the super massive black hole from M87 hit the news. The black hole ...
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Direct observations of a black hole?
I'm not very knowledgeable about physics generally, but know that nothing can escape a black hole's gravitational pull, not even light (making them nearly invisible?).
My question is: What has been ...
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When would the proposed black hole at the centre of Milky Way gulp in our solar system?
I've heard and read that our solar system lies near to the peripheral region of the Galaxy. Then accordingly we would have a greater probability of sustaining to eventual gulping down by the ...
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Anti-Matter Black Holes
Assuming for a second that there were a pocket of anti matter somewhere sufficiently large to form all the type of object we can see forming from normal matter - then one of these objects would be a ...
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What is the strange event in this simulation of a galactic collision?
I was watching this video on YouTube: 2 Spiral Galaxies w/Supermassive Black Holes Collide
Around half way, and again almost at the end, the black holes seem to suddenly give off some sort of force ...