r/blackholes • • 2d ago

What would be the closest depiction of a plain old black hole to the naked eye?

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A black hole with no disc around it. Would you only be able to tell its there because of a warped sense of light?

I know the black hole isnt actually black, but how do you describe something colorless? Would you only see what is supposed to be behind it, but just warped beyond hell?


r/blackholes • • 5d ago

What Would Happen if a Coin-Sized Black Hole Appeared Next to You?

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r/blackholes • • 5d ago

Searching for Black Holes Born Before the Stars

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r/blackholes • • 5d ago

Wouldn't a singularity take an infinite amount of time to form?

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r/blackholes • • 6d ago

Fall into a black hole and watch light bend and clocks separate as you cross the event horizon

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r/blackholes • • 6d ago

PHYS.Org: Tiny ancient black holes may live in a five-dimensional world

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r/blackholes • • 8d ago

PHYS.Org: A gamma-ray burst's engine stayed active for nearly a month, breaking the previous record

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r/blackholes • • 8d ago

I created a blackhole you tug around as a game mechanic

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r/blackholes • • 10d ago

"Ultra" Supermassive Black Holes

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r/blackholes • • 10d ago

Could Another Universe Exist Inside A Black Hole?

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r/blackholes • • 10d ago

Did Our Cosmos Begin Inside A Black Hole In Another Universe?

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r/blackholes • • 11d ago

The Ghost of TIC 160582982: Has TESS Found a Hidden Stellar-Mass Black Hole?

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r/blackholes • • 11d ago

Baby black hole created in an earth laboratory

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Let's assume I'm conducting experiments with my private particle accelerator in my basement, and let's assume a tiny black hole is created in the process. How long would it take for this baby black hole to become a serious threat? Could it, for instance, sink into the Earth's core?

Edit:

Back then when the LHC experiments started media was full with story's about the LHC experiment could end earth and humans. I never believed that story but recently during a discussion where people brought up bullshit and science non sense from public media the LHC example came up.

There comes my question from, to figure out how much off was this story.


r/blackholes • • 11d ago

What is the longest amount of time a black hole can exist on earth without destroying the planet?

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Say you’re in your living room, doing whatever you do in your free time, and a black hole the size of a fist appeared in the middle of the room and instantly disappeared. Whats the longest amount of time that black hole can be there without destroyed the entire world? Or, the longest amount of time it can exist without destroying your house?


r/blackholes • • 13d ago

Supermassive BlackHole Question

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r/blackholes • • 14d ago

Is it really true that S2 star orbiting satigaurries a* in center of milky way supermassive blackhole that S2 star took 16 years to orbite black hole

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is it true that we focuse on schwarzchild equation for black holes: Rs=2GM/c² or M=v² . r / g


r/blackholes • • 15d ago

How do we know black holes aren't Dyson Spheres?

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Do we have any proof that black holes occur naturally, or could they in fact be Dyson Spheres created by a more advanced entity?

What if a more effective Dyson Sphere means having gravitational pull and slowly using energy from a galaxy or solar system instead being wrapped around a star (due to maybe longevity or efficiency issues).


r/blackholes • • 18d ago

PHYS.Org: Black hole jets reach far beyond galaxies' visible edges, potentially deciding their fate

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r/blackholes • • 23d ago

Is it possible that microscopic black holes don't exist because of hawking radiation?

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Like what if hawking radiation is higher for smaller blackholes and so they radiate away quickly being the reason we have not detected them or reason they probably don't exist. I'm a med student and this is my shower thought. I would really like to know about this.


r/blackholes • • 22d ago

Thinking about it, could black hole be the 5th state of matter? (Solid liquid gas plasma and black hole) Any scientist in here say something about it

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r/blackholes • • 25d ago

Are BlackHoles Invisible?

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I’ve seen pictures and movies about black holes, but all those are extremely bright. If I ventured to space could i randomly fall into a black hole, or would it emit some light for me to see? I know it look distorted, but what are the chances I would know “yup, that’s a black hole” let me turn left.


r/blackholes • • 26d ago

Made an augmented reality ray-traced black hole you can put in your living room.

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I had an opportunity to spin this out of a game I am making and It got out of hand with some of the design features, but you can still make a pretty convincing black hole and seeing it lensing properly in your own room is a weird feeling as you walk around it. Or through it or put your hand into it!

Tried to keep it as scientifically accurate as possible, Each pixel's light ray gets bent around the hole (Schwarzschild-style deflection, with a short geodesic march near the hole), rays inside the photon radius make the shadow, and the bent rays hit the disc plane, so the far side of the disc shows up above and below the shadow as it should.

On the app store here

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6810945165

Hope you find it interesting or get a laugh out of it!


r/blackholes • • 26d ago

Do relativistic effects render the difficult math of singularities moot?

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As I understand it an object X falling into a black hole as witnessed by a distant observer O will experience relativistic effects such that time for X compared to time for O will run progressively slower the nearer it gets to the mass of the black hole. If this is happening for all the mass forming the black hole, will any of it ever form a singularity that O can witness? (All this ignores observing stuff inside an event horizon event horizon, though the event horizon could be another way of describing this effect)


r/blackholes • • 27d ago

What if a black hole's photon ring changed size slightly depending on the frequency you observed it at?

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r/blackholes • • Sep 15 '26

Implications of GW241011 for rotating exotic compact objects (Aditya Vijaykumar, 2026)

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See also: The publication in Physical Research Letters/The article in PHYS.Org