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What happens when an antimatter black hole collides with a matter black hole? We'd see gravitational waves but no photons, right? Would the grav waves reflect the tremendous energy release somehow?
No. The "no hair theorem" states that black holes preserve exactly three numbers: mass, charge, and angular momentum. Baryon number, lepton number (as you would see in antimatter) are not conserved, the information is lost. And, no, antimatter does not have negative mass, in any of the three contexts (mass-energy equivalence, inertia, and gravitational). Therefore, a black hole fed entirely by antimatter would be ind…
Nasa’s Roman Mission Will Hunt for Primordial Black Holes
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If you sit on a merry-go-round, and spin it very fast, you feel the "centrifugal force" trying to keep you in an inertial frame. That's because you're having to hold on to the ride. If you're in a spacecraft in orbit around Earth, you don't feel the force keeping you in a circular motion, because both you and the craft are experiencing the same force. The worse thing about going past a blackhole would be tidal forces…
I was wondering that actually if the hole goes through your leg does it leave a hole or does your whole body get sucked in. I imagine it is the whole body unless you are travelling really fast at the time. Like near speed of light. Because the gravity outside the event horizon will still be crazy strong going out for several km (earth is a good comparison in the gravity is still fairly strong about 6000km from the ce…
Sounds like the centre is what creates gravity. But there's weightlessness at the Earth center. It's the sum gravity force of all Earth particles that creates total gravity.
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What happens when an antimatter black hole collides with a matter black hole? We'd see gravitational waves but no photons, right? Would the grav waves reflect the tremendous energy release somehow?
No. The "no hair theorem" states that black holes preserve exactly three numbers: mass, charge, and angular momentum. Baryon number, lepton number (as you would see in antimatter) are not conserved, the information is lost. And, no, antimatter does not have negative mass, in any of the three contexts (mass-energy equivalence, inertia, and gravitational). Therefore, a black hole fed entirely by antimatter would be ind…
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No. The "no hair theorem" states that black holes preserve exactly three numbers: mass, charge, and angular momentum. Baryon number, lepton number (as you would see in antimatter) are not conserved, the information is lost. And, no, antimatter does not have negative mass, in any of the three contexts (mass-energy equivalence, inertia, and gravitational). Therefore, a black hole fed entirely by antimatter would be ind…
What is charge in this context? Photons can’t leave the black hole, so this charge as good as lost?
Additionally, when you get Hawking radiation into the mix, negatively-charged particles (electrons, muons, tauons ... but probably mostly electrons) would be preferentially emitted, since pair production near the horizon would preferentially eject the negative particle via electrostatic repulsion and just as preferentially recapture the positive member of the pair.
Not that you asked, but the angular momentum looks different than the other two, it actually changes the shape of the event horizon to something more oblate.
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No. The "no hair theorem" states that black holes preserve exactly three numbers: mass, charge, and angular momentum. Baryon number, lepton number (as you would see in antimatter) are not conserved, the information is lost. And, no, antimatter does not have negative mass, in any of the three contexts (mass-energy equivalence, inertia, and gravitational). Therefore, a black hole fed entirely by antimatter would be ind…
But it's charge would be negated, since charge is one of the parameters, no? Not sure it affects anything tho.
"Antimatter" is really only "anti" in a few respects. First, the lepton or baryon number has the sign flipped. An electron has a positive lepton number; a positron would have a negative lepton number. The charges are also flipped, where applicable (anti-neutrons still have a charge of zero). Isospin is flipped; spin is not. Mass is not, in three ways.
First, if you converted an anti-proton into pure energy (ignoring charge conservation, et al), it is the same energy as you would get out of a proton.
Second, an anti-proton exerts the same gravitational pull as a proton. A world of anti-matter would cause you to fall toward it the same way the Earth would.
Third, a force exerted on an antiproton causes it to accelerate along the same vector as the force, so the inertia is the same as regular matter.
People have theorized, myself included, on what some kind of matter where mass was negative (let's dub it nega-matter) would look like, which is to say that a force pushing it away would contrarily draw it toward you. You can simulate it in particle life, likely, but what would happens is that all of the nega-electrons would feel electrostatic repulsion and therefore clump together, as would all of the nega-protons. These two lumps of enormous charge (we just don't get that in real life, electrostatics are dozens of orders of magnitude more powerful than gravity) would create an "attractive" field between them of nearly incalculable strength and, because they would move opposite to the vector of the force, promptly zoom away at many nines of the speed of light. In short, they would sort themselves out and fly away to distant corners of the universe with great haste.
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Star Trek fans will recognize the name as that of a versatile light starship class often seen acting as science vessels. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberth_effect FWIW I’ve read several explanations of why this works, including some confidently claiming that one or more of the others was wrong, and a couple of which kinda made sense as I was reading them, but not a one of them has made a lick of sense to me after…
OK so I was totally confused by the Oberth effect and how it could possibly be and so did some research. Now I have no idea why or how kinetic energy has a quadratic relationship with velocity, but it does. Something something work something something square of velocity, who knows. If someone could explain that to me like I'm 5 I would totally appreciate it. But if we just take that as a given then we can develop an…
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OK so I was totally confused by the Oberth effect and how it could possibly be and so did some research. Now I have no idea why or how kinetic energy has a quadratic relationship with velocity, but it does. Something something work something something square of velocity, who knows. If someone could explain that to me like I'm 5 I would totally appreciate it. But if we just take that as a given then we can develop an…
> ELI5 mv^2/2 Imagine a car is moving at a speed of 10 m/s. The driver hits the brakes. How much distance does it need to stop? The main idea is that brakes have a constant force, and the change in speed is always constant. Let's say they reduce the speed in 1 m/s each second. The first second the car travels 10 m and the new speed is 9 m/s. The second second the car travels 9 m and the new speed is 8 m/s. The third…
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I was wondering that actually if the hole goes through your leg does it leave a hole or does your whole body get sucked in. I imagine it is the whole body unless you are travelling really fast at the time. Like near speed of light. Because the gravity outside the event horizon will still be crazy strong going out for several km (earth is a good comparison in the gravity is still fairly strong about 6000km from the ce…
Depends on the size of the hole. If it's small enough, all you might get is one long bruise due to tidal/gravity effects, without losing a single atom of your body
And if the black hole passes you at a velocity lower than the speed of light, then the radius grows. That matter will begin orbiting the black hole and will leave your body just as fast as the black hole left.
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I'd like to see a simulation of what that would look like. I mean, if by magic the sun was replaced with an equivalent mass black hole in an instant would anything be visible from earth before the inevitable freeze?
From Earth's perspective, you wouldn't see anything interesting except for the sun vanishing. Gravitationally, all that matters is the absolute mass, so all the dynamics of the solar system stay the same. A black hole of 1 solar mass has a radius of something like 3km. Totally invisible from Earth. You probably wouldn't even see any gravitational lensing. All we would see is the sun there one moment, and then nothing…
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Depends on the size of the hole. If it's small enough, all you might get is one long bruise due to tidal/gravity effects, without losing a single atom of your body
This is incorrect. Any matter within about three Schwarzschild radii will never escape the black hole - i.e. will be carried along with it - even if the black hole passes you at the speed of light. And if the black hole passes you at a velocity lower than the speed of light, then the radius grows. That matter will begin orbiting the black hole and will leave your body just as fast as the black hole left.