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I'm not well versed in celestial mechanics, but I see a lot of "we're in a black hole" comments so far, and I'm super curious as to whether or not we know why b
by 0xEF 2y ago
I'm not well versed in celestial mechanics, but I see a lot of "we're in a black hole" comments so far, and I'm super curious as to whether or not we know why black holes prefer a direction of spin. Can you (or anyone, really) shed light on that?
- exe34 2y agoI think it would be more that the entire universe is in a black hole spinning in a certain direction.
- kingsleyopara 2y agoExactly and anything new entering the spinning black hole is likely to inherit its spin.
- iainmerrick 2y agoIt's not that black holes prefer a direction, it's just that they have a direction at all. It's one of the very few observable properties of a black hole. If I'm following correctly, the "we're inside a black hole" idea is a major reach, connecting at least two unrelated concepts (black holes could contain baby universes; black holes have spin). But it's a really interesting idea and not obviously wrong.
- f1shy 2y agoIs inside the article: "A preferred axis in our universe, inherited by the axis of rotation of its parent black hole, might have influenced the rotation dynamics of galaxies, creating the observed clockwise-counterclockwise asymmetry,” Nikodem Poplawski