Hole Definition and 1000 Threads

A hole is an opening in or through a particular medium, usually a solid body. Holes occur through natural and artificial processes, and may be useful for various purposes, or may represent a problem needing to be addressed in many fields of engineering. Depending on the material and the placement, a hole may be an indentation in a surface (such as a hole in the ground), or may pass completely through that surface (such as a hole created by a hole puncher in a piece of paper). In engineering, a hole may be blind or through if it is partial or complete depth.

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  1. Italian_Mike

    Can Light Move Inside a Black Hole Event Horizon?

    The question is as follows: suppose I throw a metal bar 1m long inside the event horizon of a supermassive black hole of 1 million solar masses. At both ends of the metal bar there is a light source. (I chose a supermassive black hole to rule out any spaghettification process: with some quick...
  2. 1

    What Happens to Mass When Black Holes Move?

    I've recently read a new article that said that the recent gravitational waves might have had 2 black holes in a star that gave me a question, because you need masses to move or accelerate to generate gravitational waves, what happens to the mass inside of the star? because black holes's space...
  3. G

    B Falling into a black hole (seen from outside)

    I refer to the time coordinate of an outside observer (ideally hoovering over the BH at large constant distance). Can (s)he actually see something falling into the hole within finite time, that means actually disappearing and making the Event horizon larger? If no, all the merging of black...
  4. A

    A drunk falling into a black hole

    According to the holographic principle, It is proposed that the entire information that is kept in a 3D volume of the black hole can be represented in a 2D surface of its horizon. What if we have a drunk falling into a black hole and moves in a random walk in his inertial frame. According to the...
  5. A

    Is it possible to suck air out of drilling hole completely?

    and after sucking air out we seal off the hole in order to eliminate any change in influx and pressure downhole? and if possible, what would be the procedure?
  6. K

    B Can gravitational wave escape a black hole

    light waves created inside a black hole cannot. Can gravitational waves escape from inside of black holes? in classical GR. does the answer change in string theory?
  7. B

    Unraveling the Mystery of Information in Black Holes

    Hi Folks, Can somenone explain what "information" is with respect to black holes? I thought it was all about mass and energy from both quantum Mechanics and GR perspective. Why does "information" come into it...sounds unusual to say the least. Thanks B
  8. schrodingerscat11

    Why is there a need for correlation hole?

    I have been reading about the physical meaning of exchange-correlation hole and this is what I have found so far: Exchange hole - attributed to the spin of the electrons. Electrons of same spin will not occupy the same orbital because of Pauli Exclusion Principle. This leads to the lowering of...
  9. A

    Can a black hole shrink another black hole's event horizon?

    http://cdn4.sci-news.com/images/2016/02/image_3628-Gravitational-Waves.jpg In the above image, i can see that the event horizon of each black hole has decreased in size. Does that mean that the event horizon can shrink in the presence of another black hole?
  10. B

    How Does Gravity Escape a Black Hole?

    And how does graviton escape the event horizon? People say it's because those gravitons are "virtual particles" and can travel faster than light, yet many of the posts i read on here say virtual particles don't even exist. Also, gravity TRAVELS at the speed of light, if the sun is suddenly gone...
  11. Narasoma

    Black Hole Evaporation: Confusing Red Particle & Time Dilation

    This picture confuses me. It showed here that the red particle at top right get suck into the black hole. But to a distant observer, everything near the black hole get time dilation and finally freeze at the horizon, right? So, "when" the black hole evaporates? Moreover, why the black hole likes...
  12. Jefffff

    Sink time of a cap with varying hole diameters

    Hi guys, this is my first time on the forum, and I was wondering if you could help me out with this problem. I have regrettably chosen a topic for a high school lab assignment that was quite complex compared to what was expected. For my investigation, I've drilled holes of varying size into...
  13. G

    How can EM interaction escape a black hole?

    Hi. Charge is one of the few properties a black hole can have. EM interaction is mediated by photons. How can they escape the BH?
  14. G

    B Create Black Hole Through Heat or Fusion?

    Would it be possible that you could create a black hole from heating something really hot. I heard Vsauce said if you heat something hot enough that it's wave length of the light released is smaller than the plank length, it would become a black hole. That means that the energy would be on the...
  15. Gjmdp

    Did an explosion of a Black Hole make the Big Bang

    I'm not talking about white holes. Indeed, the big bang as the explosion of a black hole are an explosion of singularity.
  16. R

    Time dilation magnitude in orbit around a black hole

    Hello, I'm working on a hypothetical situation involving a planetary body orbiting a black hole (similar to the scenario in Interstellar, but for different reasons), trying to balance tidal forces with orbital distance and time dilation. First, I'm interested in the effect of gravitational...
  17. rjbeery

    Has information been lost to a black hole?

    [I originally posted this in Astronomy and Astrophysics but it didn't get much traction. Perhaps folks in this forum would have something to contribute...] I'd like to understand if and when information is ever actually lost in a black hole; specifically, I'd like to analyze the statement: Is...
  18. Chronos

    Supermassive black hole evolution

    This paper; http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.05473, The Early Growth of the First Black Holes discusses the evolution of supermassive massive black holes [SMBH] as inferred from observations of high z quasars: which has provoked questions about the putatitve age of the universe and the time it allows...
  19. rjbeery

    Has information been lost to a black hole?

    I'd like to understand if and when information is ever actually lost in a black hole; specifically, I'd like to analyze the statement: Is there information, which existed in the past, that is theoretically unavailable to external observers today due to falling through the event horizon of a...
  20. Ontophobe

    Photon Orbit Around a Black Hole: Conservation Law Effects

    Hi. Now that I understand the conservation law of angular momentum, and given the fact that c is constant, I infer that if a photon were to go into orbit around a black hole, it could only take a circular orbit. No elliptical orbits for photons, because if it were to follow an elliptical orbit...
  21. A

    Loss of stellar information in a black hole

    I have just seen a brief clip of an article by a journalist regarding a lecture given by Hawking this week about the mystery of where information of a star goes to when it is swallowed by a black hole. As a non physicist, I am grappling with what exactly is meant by this. Isn't this just a...
  22. N

    Black hole singularty definable In 3D space?

    Since the center of a black hole is defined as a singularity and space-time collapses at that point (assumption) is it possible to define this point in 3D coordinates? In other words, is it possible that our universe can not be described as a 3D space but rather as a space with 2.99... dimensions?
  23. |Glitch|

    Possible Intermediate-Mass Black Hole in Milky Way Galaxy

    Signature of an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole in the Central Molecular Zone of Our Galaxy - arXiv 1512.04661 (free reprint) Apparently there was another thread with a similar title ("Second black hole may lurk at Milky Way's heart") from June 2003, but it really had nothing to do with a second...
  24. E

    Speed of Light & Black Hole: What Happens?

    What would happen if you were to fly a starship traveling near the speed of light directly into a black hole? Would it stay in tact because it cannot be accelerating any faster? Or would it split because it's being accelerated in all directions simultaneously?
  25. sevenperforce

    Stellar-mass black hole formation sequence

    I feel like this could go in quite a few of the Physics subforums (Quantum Physics, Beyond the Standard Model, Special and General Relativity, or High Energy, Nuclear, Particle Physics) instead of Astronomy and Cosmology, but hopefully this will work. This is my first question I've posed here...
  26. Kerrigoth

    I Are the positive charges from a hole and a proton ?

    The book I'm reading is discussing the physics of semiconductors. I'm having a hard time understanding a passage in section introducing n-type semiconductors. (Phosphorus is used as the impurity) The book says: "At normal operating temperatures, this extra electron breaks its bond with the...
  27. O

    How is light affected by the gravity of a black hole?

    Hello! I am new to this forum, but I'll give it a shot. It is my understanding that photons have no mass- but that light is still pulled by the gravity of a black hole. How can something without a mass, and therefore, gravity, be pulled by the gravity of another object? Any insight would be...
  28. S

    Falling Into a Black Hole: Time Dilation & Survival

    So for an outside observer it appears someone falling into is slowing down and then gets redder and redder. But what about for the local observer? From the perspective of the person falling I would imagine that the universe would appear to speed up tremendously. Is it possible you could survive...
  29. P

    Witness Life of Universe from Black Hole Event Horizon

    I know there are many threads about falling into black holes and I'm sorry for posting another one. I have a specific question and couldn't find the answer in prior threads, although it's possible that it's there somewhere. If A is outside the supermassive black hole and B falls into it, I know...
  30. G

    How to stop a black hole forming?

    Hello there! I just made this account today because I figured this place would be a good way to get some answers to things that have bugged me for years. I'm not particularly sure how this would even work, so bare with me here. There is a critical density at which a black hole forms, which...
  31. A

    How can a black hole be infinitely small?

    Hi everyone. First post here! It's an odd thought and relax I'm expecting to be wrong but the more I think about this the more interested I get.. Let's say you're chilling in the centre of earth, you feel no (little) pull because the gravity of Earth cancels out in all directions. If a black...
  32. S

    B Can a Black hole also be a wormhole?

    Can a Black hole also be a wormhole ?? is it possible
  33. S

    Hole Mass vs Electron Mass: What's the Difference?

    Why is it opposite to that of an electron?
  34. H

    Why is there a hole in airplane windows?

    The following link explains that "it serves as a bleed valve, allowing pressure between the air in the passenger cabin and the air between the outer and middle panes [an airplane window has three panes] to equilibrate", yet it mentions that it is "a failsafe designed to hold the cabin pressure...
  35. S

    Black hole smaller than a neutron star?

    OK so some stars evolve into neutron stars which I assume are so small (10's of kms) because ALL empty space is removed between the atoms.. absolute highest density possible? Now.. is a black hole larger (massive and in diameter) than a neutron star and called a black hole only because the...
  36. M

    What if there was a black hole in the middle of a nebula?

    I was wondering, if there was a black hole in the center of a nebula, then would there be a possibility that the nebula would be eaten from the inside out before any stars could be born? It'd be something interesting to observe over time.
  37. M

    Rotating Disc with central hole

    Homework Statement Problem and worked Example[/B] Homework Equations In worked example 1. Problem The Attempt at a Solution It's the part where I'm subtracting one stress from the other stress. I put it in parenthesis on the worked example. I don't think my method here is right, I've tried...
  38. Ellie Snyder

    Black hole calculations, the "Event Horizon Telescope"

    Homework Statement Soon astronomers will be imaging the “shadow” of light from the event horizons of black holes. Since black holes are very small, this achievement seems impossible. Nevertheless, it is possible for three reasons: 1. Supermassive black holes have large event horizons. 2. Radio...
  39. W

    Hawking radiation no change to black hole mass?

    have read numerous times about Hawking radiation. don't understand how that can lead to black hole evaporation in so much that wouldn't as many matter as anti-matter particles fall in thus balancing out over time to the growth and evaporation of black holes thus leaving the mass of the balck...
  40. M

    Photoelectron to electron hole pair doubts

    Hi, I have a couple of questions on photoelectrons. When a photoelectron of about 3-eV (varies) interacts within 0.2-um depletion region of silicon, what happens? I know, it will generate an electron-hole pair with an efficiency of 1 for 3.6-eV photoelectron. But what happens if the...
  41. Multiple_Authors

    Insights Is the Universe a Black Hole? - Comments

    Multiple_Authors submitted a new PF Insights post Is the Universe a Black Hole? Continue reading the Original PF Insights Post.
  42. valentin mano

    Observer Falling Into a Black Hole -- What do they see?

    If we have an infalling observer through the event horizon,will she see the end of the Universe?
  43. G

    Gravitational effect of a black hole based on distance

    Hi, I have often read that at large enough distances, the gravitational effect of a black hole is no different than the gravitational effect of a star or other body of the same mass. But that at close distances the difference shows up, for example the notion of the photon sphere at 1.5 times...
  44. Grogbor

    Unpredictable Outcomes: What Happens When Falling into a Black Hole?

    I was watching a video about how an observer outside a black hole would watch someone slow to a halt at the event horizon and I don't question it, as that makes sense. My first question to the Astrophysicists out there is what the observer falling into the black hole would see. It would make...
  45. N

    Observer dependent event horizon for Schwarzschild black hole

    Hello. In oral exams my professor likes to ask if Alice and Bob can communicate, if Alice ist just above the event horizon of a schwarzschild black hole and Bob ist just below. He wants to hear: Communication is possible, because the event horizon is observer dependent. Only an observer...
  46. D

    I Does continuous acceleration eventually create a black hole

    The following equation equates relativistic mass to rest mass http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/RestMass.html Does the mass caused by high velocity have gravity?
  47. T

    Humans Move Before Becoming Black Hole

    The question kind of says it all. How fast fast could a human move before Relativistic mass made him collapse into a black hole(the answerer can choose whatever mass and volume that they want for the equations).
  48. A

    I What's the fate of neutrons in black hole formation?

    I understand how the neutron stars are formed, and why the electron degeneracy pressure collapses as electrons are absorbed by protons, by photo disintegration. However, I'm struggling to grasp what happens when the gravity is large enough to overcome neutron degeneracy pressure. Apparently a...
  49. bcrowell

    Do non-black hole singularities have observable properties?

    I hope the topic of this post is not too philosophical to be appropriate here. Some recent discussions on PF have helped to crystallize my view of how classical GR treats singularities, and black hole singularities in particular. However, I'm not sure to what extent these ideas generalize to...
  50. D

    Why can't light return from a black hole?

    So if light is "pulled" into a black hole by following the curvature of seriously bent space time. Then i question, why does it not eventually come back out the other side? If its not literally being dragged in then shouldn't it ride through the whole thing and eventually come back out? From...
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