Hole Definition and 1000 Threads

  1. The Fishicist

    What Happens Inside a Black Hole?

    I'm curious about what others think. As I believe that you fall indefinitely in a black hole, and since you don't feel the gravity when falling, you fall until your incinerated by faster moving electromagnetic radiation falling on you. But you can only see what is above you, assuming your eyes...
  2. C

    Density of holes in valence band

    When electrons leave the valence band and jump over the gap to the conduction band, what is the density of the remaining holes? If 2.5 electrons/cm^3 leave the VB to the CB, will the density of remaining holes be 2.5 electrons/cm^3? To me it is logical, but I am wondering if mass of electron...
  3. ChrisVer

    Black Hole Event Horizon: Is There a Physical Boundary?

    Is there a physical boundary that is the event horizon? Or is there not? The reason I'm asking is because texts say that the event horizon that appears in Schwarzschild's metric is a result of the coordinate choice, and it disappears by choosing some other coordinates.
  4. wabbit

    Experimental Black Hole Physics

    (I don't know if this is the best place to ask this, if not please feel free to move it elsewhere or delete it.) A number of Quantum Gravity papers explore the evolution of Black Holes and their potential transition to White Holes, and some discuss the possibility of astronomical observation of...
  5. T

    Extremely large Black Hole discovered 900M years after BB

    I thought that this might be a concern for the standard Cosmological model? An extremely large Black Hole discovered to have existed just 900M years after the Big Bang...
  6. James S

    Black Hole Singularity: Infinite Mass & Merging Supermassive Black Holes

    If the Singularity Has Infinite Mass, How Does Merging With Another Black Hole Create "Suoermassive" Black Holes? Infinite Plus Infinite Is Infinite. No Increase.
  7. A

    Teaching a Lesson on Black Hole Buoyancy: 15-Year-Old Seeks Advice

    I am fifteen and I attend High Tech High International and I have to teach a hour long lesson on Black Hole Buoyancy. And I was wondering how to do that. Can I have some suggestions or help?
  8. James S

    Dark Matter Black Holes: Is it Possible?

    is a dark matter black hole possible, and what would it be like ?
  9. E

    What Is the Connection Between Black Hole Entropy and the Holographic Principle?

    How exactly did Hawking compute that black hole entropy is 1/4 that of a Planck area and concluded about the holographic principle where information of a volume is located on the area of black hole? And if there was no holographic principle, how big should entropy of the black hole be with...
  10. C

    What is the equation for the Schwarzschild Radius and why is π not included?

    Hello :) I had a question , i recently red a lot about black holes and i had a question about the Schwarzschild Radius . How does that come that π is not in the equation ? The black hole is a sphere so instinctly one could think that Pi should be in the equations.. ? P.S: I'm french and 16 so...
  11. wabbit

    Can a locally non-special place emit Hawking radiation from a black hole?

    Hello. I'm thinking about Hawking radation and there's one thing I find a bit strange. The radiation is usually described as originating at he even horizon. The explanation makes sense and all, but still how can this locally non-special place become the seat of a local phenomenon(emitting...
  12. J

    How Can we Find the Escape velocity of a black hole

    How Can we Find the Escape velocity of a black hole.
  13. us40

    Passing a black hole from double slit experiment setup

    Hello, Theoretically any object can convert into black hole by compressing its mass below some radius( describe by Schwarzschild Radius). Suppose one of this object after becoming black hole have radius which is comparable to atoms and nucleus radius. Now my question is what will happen if we...
  14. Larry Pendarvis

    Can a maximal charged black hole have "flavor" or weak hair?

    Consider a Maximal (negatively) charged black hole. Can it have "flavor" or weak charge? Suppose a muon collided with that hole. Would an electron be emitted? What if electron neutrinos collided with that black hole; would electron neutrinos more likely be emitted as Hawking Radiation...
  15. AdityaDev

    What Makes a Black Hole a 'Hole' If It's a Point Mass?

    if I compress a heavy body to a very small point object such that its density is almost infinity, I get a black hole. but how can a point mass be a hole? why do scientists call it a black 'hole'? what I mean is, if I were to be pushed into a black hole, will I collide with that point mass? Also...
  16. C

    What is the momentum of a hole in a semiconductor?

    I've been playing around with some ideas of electron-hole pairs in semiconductors lately, have realized that I'm confused about some basic conventions that maybe the physics forum community could help clear up. Let's imagine that we have a direct gap semiconductor initially at zero temperature...
  17. G

    Black Hole & Quantum Entanglement Experiment

    In my thought experiment (it seems that others have asked a similar question, but I have a more specific question in my list below), we have a physicist outside the event horizon of a black hole. He has many entangled particles and sends some into the black hole. Is / Could there be some...
  18. hgducharme

    How to determine a hole in a graph?

    I'm aware that in order to find the hole in a graph, you need to factor both the numerator and denominator, and look for terms that cancel out. However, is it merely just looking for a term that cancels out, or is it more specifically a term that cancels out and makes the numerator equal to...
  19. C

    Penrose Diagram for the Kerr Black Hole

    Hey Guys, so i was reading Hawking&Ellis a bit and still encounter always problems with the Penrose-Diagrams. Looking at the Penrose-Diagram for the rotating Kerr-Black hole (just one illustrating picture at the end) i come up the following question: Why are there TWO regions III and III ? In...
  20. S

    Throwing something into a black hole

    I'm a bit puzzled by the dynamics of things falling into a black hole. If I start with a test mass at infinity, it will fall freely into the black hole and reach the speed of light at the event horizon. What happens if I throw something towards the black hole? Will it already reach the speed of...
  21. I

    Inside a black hole, looking out

    I have been pondering black holes for some time and have had trouble with the problems presented simply because there is very little we can do to study the phenomena. I have always thought of a black from the outside looking in, or basically the only way we can hope to see a black hole. However...
  22. G

    How Does a Rope Fall Through a Hole in Physics?

    Homework Statement A rope of mass M and length l lies on a friction less table, with a short portion, ##l_0## hanging through a hole. Initially the rope is at rest. a. Find a general solution for x(t), the length of rope through the hole. (Ans: ##x=Ae^{\gamma t}+Be^{-\gamma t}##, where...
  23. Abishek

    Black Holes & Hawking Radiation: Time Paused in Gravity?

    In the view of Hawking radiation and entropy of black holes, the evaporation is continuous and at one point, there will be no singularity for the black hole. By relativity, if we reach a super massive black hole, then time would be relatively slowed down to a point that it stops (maybe?). Now...
  24. 22990atinesh

    Why Graphing Tools doesn't represent hole in a graph

    Why Graphing Tools doesn't represent hole in a graph of a function. A Hole at a point in a graph is point where function is not defined.Suppose there is a function ##\frac{x}{\root{x-1}-1}## Its should be like this But online tools and even my android graphing tool app shows graph like this...
  25. Ganesh Ujwal

    Surface gravity of Kerr black hole

    I'm going through Kerr metric, and following the 'Relativist's toolkit' derivation of the surface gravity, I've come to a part that I don't understand. Firstly, the metric is given by...
  26. J

    Compacting Matter in a Black Hole Singularity: Is It Pure Entropy?

    Information that is ordered can be compacted down to a single repeating unit i,e; 110055110055110055110055 down to just 110055 and this meant that it must have been highly ordered to be compacted down this far. So could it be that matter is also highly ordered somehow and it can be compacted...
  27. B

    When will neutronization occur in the black hole formation process?

    We have a large mass, and we increase it slowly- dropping in one atom at a time. Will a black hole form suddenly, or will it gradually become blacker with the addition if each atom? I assume that a mass marginally below the threshold must at least partially have the properties of a black hole...
  28. L

    Entering a black hole theoretically of course

    Hey all this is my first post, Everyone knows you can't enter a black hole because you'll be stretched/turned into noodles due to the immense change in gravity over small lengths. I was reading another thread on the physics forum and happened to come across an equation which would determine if...
  29. B

    Hawking Radiation from All Gravitational Sources?

    I see that the formula for hawking radiation is related the the formula for unruh radiation. The accelleration experienced by a body yields an unruh temperature equivalent to a black holes hawking temperature with an equivalent value of g. The unruh effect happens at all accelerations, therefore...
  30. B

    Photon pressure within a black hole

    If a large mass of matter and anti-matter collided to form a black hole, I assume they would anihilate and you would have a black hole made of photons. Now considering the black hole as a container of photon, there must be a net pressure pushing against the confines of the gravity. The force of...
  31. B

    Observable universe as a black hole

    A substance of arbitrarily low density can form a black hole if there is enough of it. So I took the mean density of the universe and calculated how big it would have to be to form a black hole. It's a surprising coincidence that the swartzchild radius in light years is the exact age of the...
  32. binbagsss

    Black Hole Penrose Process: Understanding Negative Energy Condition

    ##E= -T^uP_u ##, where ##T^u## is the time-like killing vector associated with the Kerr Metric and ##P_u## is the 4-momentum of the particle. ##E## is the energy. Outside the ergosphere ##T^u## is time-like and inside the ergosphere it is space-like. Therefore it can be arranged within the...
  33. Lamdbaenergy

    Find the mass of a black hole from just its radius?

    I know the original schwarzschild formula for finding the radius of the black hole, but what equation can be used to find its mass if you ONLY know its radius?
  34. avito009

    Is there vacuum at the Event Horizon of a Black Hole?

    As all of us know that in a vacuum the particle antiparticle pairs or the virtual particles are created violating the law of conservation of energy. So even near an Event Horizon of a Black Hole virtual particles are formed. One of the particles gets sucked into the black hole but the other...
  35. Lamdbaenergy

    Understanding Gravitational Red Shifting with a Solar-Mass Black Hole

    I've been searching over this and I don't quite get it yet. I just heard about this "z" parameter for gravitational red shifting and I thought it'd be fun to apply into the scenario of a solar-mass black hole. The equation I looked at was (1/(2GM/c^2r)^0.5) - 1 = z So, like, does the z parameter...
  36. C

    Can black hole be used in hardish science story?

    After reading: I wondered about the following thing - is it possible to make a story in which there is a place for a habitable planet and a black hole? (I mean, I have one idea, but it does not end up well... ;) ) I see one additional limitation: the black hole was created in a supernova, so...
  37. V

    Can a Black Hole Form Directly from a Collapsing Protostar Cloud?

    Can be black hole created straight from cloud forming protostar. I mean, the region which is collapsing is so massive that pressure of radiation could not resist and the cloud is collapsing to singularity? If not, why?
  38. G

    Calculating electron and hole population in a semiconductor

    I'm very new to semiconductors. I want to do basic calculations. How would I go about calculating and graphing the energy of the electrons and holes given the magnetic field and the state. Also, how would I do the same for the electron and hole population.
  39. J

    Equation for time dilation of body in orbit around Kerr black hole?

    Inspired by the movie Interstellar which featured a planet orbiting a rotating supermassive black hole with an extremely high time dilation factor (slowed by a factor of 60,000 relative to observers far from the black hole), I was wondering if anyone knows of an equation for time dilation of...
  40. S

    Rope Through a Hole in a Frictionless Table

    Homework Statement A uniform rope of length L lies in a lump on a frictionless table. a very small piece at one end is held hanging down through a hole in the table just below the lump. This system is released, and the rope slides down through the hole. What is the speed of the other end of...
  41. A

    Black Holes & Particle Collisions: Does Linear Momentum Transfer?

    Now I know that in the general Schwarzschild metric, there is energy and angular momentum conservation, but what I'm wondering is if there is any linear momentum conservation. Let's say a particle collides with a black hole. Does the energy of that particle go solely to the rest mass and...
  42. J

    Crossing the Event Horizon: Observing a Massive Black Hole

    A number of recent threads have discussed what happens when an observer falling into a massive black hole passes the event horizon. What I would like to know is this. For a massive BH of mass M, Schwartzchild Radius Rs, how long would it take for such an observer (who, presumably crosses the...
  43. J

    Solar System inside a black hole

    Is it possible for our solar system to be located inside a black hole which is our galactic centre?
  44. wolram

    How Did Supermassive Black Holes Grow So Massive So Quickly?

    What is the origin of the M-sigma relation between supermassive black hole mass and galaxy velocity dispersion?] How did the most distant quasars grow their supermassive black holes up to 109 solar masses so early in the history of the Universe?
  45. 9

    Can a threaded tapped joint function as a friction joint?

    I have a tapped hole. A threaded rod goes through the hole. A single nut secures the threaded rod in position. Only one plate is threaded. Note the clearance hole in the top plate. A picture is attached. A friction joint in a bolt occurs when the clamping force creates a normal force. This...
  46. B

    Maximum angular momentum for charged black hole?

    Hi all I gather a normal black hole has maximum angular velocity at the point that the event horizon is moving at The speed of light. However what would be the maximum rotational velocity for a maximally charged black hole- for example one made purely of electrons? Thanks
  47. J

    Help calculating The mass of a Black hole (homework help)

    on this lab worksheet i need to fill out the bottom table (the top one is already filled out). I am having trouble understanding The numbers in the first part of the chart. I know RA is right accession and DEC is declination but what I'm not understanding is why there are two different numbers...
  48. E

    Max Height of Water in a Container with 0.1mm Hole: Solving h

    Homework Statement A container has a round hole at the bottom. The diameter of the hole is 0.1 mm. The container is filled with water. The maximum height (in m) up to which whiter can be filled without leakage is h/10. Find h. Surface tension= 75 * 10^-3 N/m Homework Equations Pgh*A=F(of...
  49. Uberhulk

    Which Has A Stronger Gravitational Pull - A Black Hole or Neutron Star?

    Is this established or is it dependent on the size of the black hole? http://www.space.com/22180-neutron-stars.html Neutron stars pack their mass inside a 20-kilometer (12.4 miles) diameter. They are so dense that a single teaspoon would weigh a billion tons — assuming you somehow managed to...
  50. avito009

    If the sun becomes a black hole will its schwarzschild radius change?

    I know that the schwarzschild radius is proportional to the mass. But in case of black holes the mass remains the same only the size and density changes. So does the schwarzschild radius stay same when it is the sun and when it becomes a black hole?
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