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Can we build a synthetic event horizon?
If we imagine ourselves to be a civilization capable of manipulating very heavy masses in arbitrary spatial and momentum configurations (because we have access to large amounts of motive force, for ...
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Gravitational redshift of Hawking radiation
How can Hawking radiation with a finite (greather than zero) temperature come from the event horizon of a black hole? A redshifted thermal radiation still has Planck spectrum but with the lower ...
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Why does the Kruskal diagram extend to all 4 quadrants?
Why is it that the Kruskal diagram is always seen extended to all 4 quadrants when the definitions of the $U,V$ coordinates don't seem to suggest that the coordinates are not defined in, say, the 3rd ...
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Is time going backwards beyond the event horizon of a black hole?
For an outside observer the time seems to stop at the event horizon. My intuition suggests, that if it stops there, then it must go backwards inside.
Is this the case?
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What is a sudden singularity?
I've seen references to some sort of black hole (or something) referred to as a sudden singularity, but I haven't seen a short clear definition of what this is for the layman.
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“WLOG” re Schwarzschild geodesics
Why, when studying geodesics in the Schwarzschild metric, one can WLOG set
$$\theta=\frac{\pi}{2}$$
to be equatorial? I assume it is so because when digging around the internet, most references seem ...
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Singularities in Schwarzchild space-time
Can anyone explain when a co-ordinate and geometric singularity arise in Schwarzschild space-time with the element
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Does non-mass-energy generate a gravitational field?
At a very basic level I know that gravity isn't generated by mass but rather the stress-energy tensor and when I wave my hands a lot it seems like that implies that energy in $E^2 = (pc)^2 + (mc^2)^2$ ...
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General definition of an event horizon?
Horizons are in general observer-dependent. For example, in Minkowski space, an observer who experiences constant proper acceleration has a horizon.
Black hole horizons are usually defined as ...
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What is mathematical definition of a strong gravity?
Mathematical definition of a weak gravity is simple $g=\frac{GM}{r^2}$
but what is mathematical definition of a strong gravity? (blackhole-like or close to a blackhole-like object)
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Why are black holes special?
A black hole is where it's mass is great enough that light can't escape at a radius above the surface of the mass?
I've been told that strange things happen inside the event horizon such as ...
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What would happen to the Moon if Earth is turned into a black hole?
Assume that all of sudden the Earth is turned into a black hole. And the moon revolves around the Earth (before turning into a black hole). What would happen to the Moon after earth changes to black ...
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Overcharging a black hole
Hubeny's 1998 paper got a lot of people interested in determining whether cosmic censorship can be violated by dropping too much charge onto a black hole. It suggested that you might be able to get a ...
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Time inside a Black hole
If time stops inside a black hole, due to gravitational time dilation, how can it's life end after a very long time? If time doesn't pass inside a black hole, then an event to occur inside a black ...
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Do semiclassical GR and charge quantisation imply magnetic monopoles?
Assuming charge quantisation and semiclassical gravity, would the absence of magnetically charged black holes lead to a violation of locality, or some other inconsistency? If so, how?
(I am not ...
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Spacetime around a Black Hole
If we consider the sun, then space-time is curve around it. My question is that what is the kind of curvature of space and time around the black hole. Is that space and time more curved around the ...
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Can you enter a timelike hypersurface?
As I understand it, a timelike hypersurface is one that has only spacelike normal vectors. But does this not imply that a the geodesic of a particle crossing it must be spacelike at that point? But ...
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Diving into a charged (Reissner-Nordstrom) Black hole
Apparently there are two event horizons in this type of black hole, where the second one is known as the Cauchy horizon. According to Carroll, if you go into the first one, you will fall until you ...
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Future light cones inside black hole
In Caroll's Spacetime and Geometry, page 227, he says that from the Schwarzschild metric, you can see than from inside a black hole future events all lead to the singularity. He says you can see this ...
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Going through a ring of black holes
Mathematician here with a speculative physical question -- feel free to boot me if the level isn't right.
Suppose one finds, or builds, a constellation of several black holes arranged in a circle. ...
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Why photons can't escape black hole? [duplicate]
Photons do not have (rest) mass. Then why are they attracted by the black hole? And is it possible that a photon crossing a black hole from a little distance could get accelerated due to the force?
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The Uncertainty Principle and Black Holes
What are the consequences of applying the uncertainty principle to black holes?
Does the uncertainty principle need to be modified in the context of a black hole and if so what are the implications ...
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Does the curvature of space-time cause objects to look smaller than they really are?
What's the difference between looking at a star from a black hole and looking at it from empty space?
My guess is that the curvature of space-time distorts the wavelength of light thus changing the ...
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Falling into a black hole emitter vs observer
Let's say we are working with the Schwarzschild metric and we have an emitter of light falling into a Schwarzschild black hole.
Suppose we define the quantity $$u=t- v$$ where $$dv/dr= ...
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Spacelike slicing of Schwarzschild geometry
I am having trouble understanding how to obtain a spacelike slicing of the Schwarchild black hole. I understand there is not a globally well defined timelike killing vector, so we can define t=cte ...
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Gravitational Redshift around a Schwarzschild Black Hole
Let's say that I'm hovering in a rocket at constant spatial coordinates outside a Schwarzschild black hole.
I drop a bulb into the black hole, and it emits some light at a distance of $r_e$ from the ...
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Hawking Radiation: how does a particle ever cross the event horizon?
The heuristic argument for Hawking Radiation is, that a virtual pair-production happens just at the event horizon. One particle goes into the black hole, while the other can be observed as radiation.
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about the 1D singularity of black hole
I saw some responses here saying that the singularity into the black hole is one dimension object so my question is : is it possible that the singularity is simply a merger of the 4 dimensions of the ...
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An infalling object in a black hole looks “paused” for a far away observer, for how long?
As I understand, to an observer well outside a black hole, anything going towards it will appear to slow down, and eventually come to a halt, never even touching the event horizon.
What happens if ...
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Could an ultra-relativistic particle tunnel directly through a stellar mass black hole?
It occurred to me in passing that the Lorentz contraction of a black hole from the perspective of an ultra-relativistic (Lorentz factor larger than about 10^16) particle could reduce the thickness of ...
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What is the capture cross-section of a black hole region for ultra-relativistic particles?
What is the capture cross-section of a black hole region for ultra-relativistic particles? I have read that it is
$$\sigma ~=~ \frac{27}{4}\pi R^{2}_{s}$$
for a Schwarzschild BH in the geometric ...
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The bigger the mass, the more time slows down. Why is this?
If I were to stand by a pyramid, which weighs about 20 million tons, I would slow down by a trillion million million million of second. Don't know if that's exactly right, but you get the point. Also, ...
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Is it mathematically possible or topologically allowable for cutouts, or cavities, to exist in a 3-manifold?
A few weeks back, I posted a related question, Could metric expansion create holes, or cavities in the fabric of spacetime?, asking if metric stretching could create cutouts in the spacetime manifold. ...
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How does the evaporation of a black hole look for a distant observer?
Let's assume an observer looking at a distant black hole that is created by collapsing star.
In observer frame of reference time near black hole horizon asymptotically slows down and he never see ...
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Black hole entropy from collapsed entangled pure light
Consider the following scenario, very similar to the one proposed in this question, but this time, the pure quantum radiation used for the black hole collapse, is now being split with down-converter ...
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Killing Vectors of BTZ black hole and their calculation in general
I was wondering what are the Killing vectors of BTZ black hole and how to guess them easily? Will it be the same as of AdS? What then will be Killing vectors for AdS-Schwarzschild e.g.?
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Would dense matter around a black hole event horizon eventually form a secondary black hole? [duplicate]
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Black hole formation as seen by a distant observer
Given that matter can never cross the event horizon of a black hole (from an external observer point of view), if a ...
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Can a black hole actually grow, from the point of view of a distant observer? [duplicate]
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Black hole formation as seen by a distant observer
I've read in several places that from the PoV of a distant observer it will take an infinite amount of time for new ...
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How would you detect Hawking radiation?
Hawking theorized that a black hole must radiate and therefore lose mass (Hawking radiation). According to classical relativity though, nothing can escape a black hole, the hawking radiation would ...
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In general relativity (GR), does time stop at the event horizon or in the central singularity of a black hole?
I was reading through this question on time and big bang, and @John Rennie's answer surprised me.
In the immediate environment of a black hole, where does time stop ticking if one were to follow a ...
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Is Brian Cox right to claim that Gravity is a strong force for large masses, is it wrong, or is it only a matter of interpretation?
I watched a program of his in which it was claimed that since mass bends space in accordance to General Relativity, then in the case of very large stars it becomes a strong force to the point of being ...
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Black hole formation as seen by a distant observer [duplicate]
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How can anything ever fall into a black hole as seen from an outside observer?
Is black hole formation observable for a distant observer in finite amount of time? ...
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Extremal black hole with no angular momentum and no electric charge
A black hole will have a temperature that is a function of the mass, the angular momentum and the electric charge. For a fixed mass, Angular momentum and electric charge are bounded by the extremality ...
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Alternate geodesic completions of a Schwarzschild black hole
The Kruskal-Szekeres solution extends the exterior Schwarzschild solution maximally, so that every geodesic not contacting a curvature singularity can be extended arbitrarily far in either direction.
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does the background spacetime of a black hole affects its thermodynamic properties?
The question is this: will the thermodynamic properties of a black hole (Hawking radiation spectra and temperature, entropy, area, etc.) depend if the black hole sits in a DeSitter or an Anti-DeSitter ...
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Why don't black holes have magnetic hair? [duplicate]
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What happens to an embedded magnetic field when a black hole is formed from rotating charged dust?
It is well stablished that the only hair a black hole can have is:
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What happens to orbits at small radii in general relativity?
I know that (most) elliptic orbits precess due to the math of general relativity, like this:
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-body_problem_in_general_relativity
I also know that something ...
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Kerr solution for finite collapse time
The Kerr black hole solutions gives an analytic continuation that is asymptotically flat. Some people have argued that this is another universe, but others state that the analytic continuation ...
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transition between extremal and nonextremal black hole states
Extremal black holes are at zero temperature, hence they do not radiate.
my question is twofold:
1) is extremality of micro black holes a stable property? electric charge is quickly emitted from ...
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Cosmology questions from a novice
These ideas/questions probably represent a lack of understanding on my part,
but here they are:
1) Cosmologists talk about the increasing speed of expansion of the universe and talk of dark energy as ...
