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This is a wonderful discovery. I had built up a picture of black hole environments always being an accretion disk plus lots of powerful radiation, which would m
by zentiggr 6y ago
This is a wonderful discovery. I had built up a picture of black hole environments always being an accretion disk plus lots of powerful radiation, which would make most unexplorable without some incredibly survivable craft.
A quiet non-accreting hole would be something you could actually visit and be curious about without getting fried by radiation or sandblasted by disk material. That's awesome.
- andrewflnr 6y agoOne of my favorite astronomy hypotheses is that Planet 9 (not Pluto, the one that's maybe mucking up the orbit of Kuiper belt objects) not only exists but is a primordial black hole. That would just be the most awesome thing to have a black hole accessible within our lifetimes. We would have to stop every other space mission and send up a mission to test quantum gravity on it.
- zentiggr 6y agoI could get on board with leaving Moon, Mars, and most other planetary missions on hold for some serious replanning and some serious test missions.
- saalweachter 6y agoWhich turns into the science fiction hypothesis it is the wormhole / ancient alien artifact connecting Sol to the rest of the galaxy.