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kleinbl00  ·  1657 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Could a habitable planet orbit a supermassive black hole?

I got to the part where the blue shift of neutrinos was a possible source of ambient heat and recognized that I was so far at sea from the shores I know that all I could do was nod appreciatively. The concept of a night sky 100 times brighter due to the dilation of time? That's some poetry.





am_Unition  ·  1657 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Even if supermassive, primordial black holes are wormholes, there's the whole issue of the universe possibly ending juuuuust before you reach the event horizon, due to relativistic time dilation making time pass almost infinitely slower near the event horizon vs. anywhere further away from the black hole. If you survive the blue-shifted irradiation dosage. If the black hole is sufficiently large that you aren't ripped apart at a sub-atomic level.

It's fun to imagine in-situ observations of an event horizon in an attempt to validate theories. It's fun because it doesn't even make sense, even if you threw something microscopic down there on a perfectly massless fishing line.

kleinbl00  ·  1657 days ago  ·  link  ·  

As it turns out, you are wrong about this every October 9th.

Also, because search is occasionally awesome, Kardashev Arms.

user-inactivated  ·  1657 days ago  ·  link  ·  

God I love reading this kind of stuff - time dilation and the like. Undoubtedly it's way over my head and I don't fully appreciate what's going on but it's so cool. I wish I had taken science courses in High School.