Are what we call  "black holes" actually God's Glory Holes?
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Who knows about black holes, but I do know an a** hole when I see one and those priest are big ones.
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We can only theorize about the physics that happens there.  Nothing escapes black holes, not even light.  Everything is crushed to sub-atomic densities and stays there.  They suck up everything and give out nothing ( like some people).\n\nSome believe that the entire universe will eventually be consumed by its black holes.  Don't worry, not in your lifetime.\n\n\nOh, Bermuda?  Relax.  Black holes require matter densities higher than the sun, higher than neutron stars.  There's nothing even close to that on earth.
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During the time when atmospheric testing was still being done, several tests of nuclear bombs were done in the far upper atmosphere (nearby space). Certainly no black holes were created. There were brief electrical disruptions and the explosions were spherical, rather than mushroom cloud shaped, but otherwise they were simply big explosions. The energy associated to even a small black hole is many, many times more than anything we have ever created on earth.
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Black holes are very dense spaces where eveything is sucked up. It cannot be the cause of a big bang because the bang cant occur in the first place. Even if there was a bang, that would be sucked up too.
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Most people *don't* believe galaxies are black holes.  A black hole is a region of space from which nothing can escape, even light.  \n\nSince you can't see a black hole (that light that isn't escaping), one has to rely on indirect evidence.  \n\n If you've found a large mass concentrated in a small volume, and if the mass is dark, then it's a good guess that there's a black hole there.  \n\nIt'll be quite some time before we can get "hard evidence" of a black hole.  We don't even have "hard evidence" that those are stars; it's just indirect evidence.
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unless this is a "zen" question, it doesn't "go" anywhere.  A black hole is a former star that has died and collapsed in upon itself and had its mass "infinitely" compressed into a tiny tiny volume.
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This question is meaningless if you think how we came to use the term.\nScientists observed irregularities in motion of celestial bodies that defied known theories. After reviewing the theories they concluded that the theories are correct and there must be something outthere that caused those irregularities. They calculated the mass and energy of such bodies and they found they gravitational pull is so extreme that to escape their pull (from nearby vicinity) matter must exceed the speed of light.\nThese regions in space were given the name of black holes (since light itself cannot escape the pull, their are invisible). Their existance can be noticed by matter being attracted to blank spots (nothing is visible there, not even starlight). 'Black hole' is a term used to describe an existing celestial body, therefore no 'proof' is needed.
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Yes they actually exist. I've seen them in highway rest stops and campus bathrooms.\n\nA glory hole is a large hole cut through the adjoining partition of two stalls, about crotch high, through which oral sex can occur.
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it depends on the holes size and the speed they approach each other.\n\nfrom theory it was assumed that they just merge and form a larger one\n\nobervations indicate that black holes may explode while merging and create extremly violant outbreaks of gamma radiation\n-> gamma-ray-bursts
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i'm not sure at all(I don't think anybody is), but i think that there might have been other big bangs. Maybe the universes are linked by black holes?
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Black holes are not holes at all.  These do not have any bearing on other universes.  They are just extremely massive objects that have collapsed within the Schwarschild radius and into a single point, which creates an area in space in which light could not escape if it gets so close.  \n\nAs for other universes, according to string theory we exist in a 3 dimensional subspace of a 13 dimensional universe.  Since we only occupy 3 dimensions, there could be other multi-dimensional subspaces which could affect our universe.  In fact, one theory of the big bang is that gravity from another universe and our own had caused them to touch, which concentrated energy in a single region, since energy is subject to gravity.  After this touching, the two universes went apart, and caused this energy to expand and 'cool' into matter that we know as our own universe.
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Scientists think that, at some point in the very distant future, all of the mass in the universe will be dominated by four or five supermassive black holes.  At first glance, this doesn't square with the second law of thermodynamics (since that's a rather low entropy state), so someone postulated that there would be such a thing as a lighthole which would re-emit everything that fell into a black hole.\n\nThat was utter nonsense.\n\nStephen Hawking put his brain to work on this problem, and solved it in a day.  He realized that, as predicted by Einstein's famous equation, gravitational fields can spontaneously create pairs of particles (one being normal matter, and the other being anti-matter).  Under normal circumstances, the matter-anti-matter pair would annihilate, but if the pair forms on the event horizon of a black hole, one of the particles would be drawn into the black hole, while the other would be emitted into space.  By doing this, the black hole has expended some of its gravity, and therefore its mass.\n\nThe answer to the conundrum is that Black Holes are slowly evaporating through this process, and we've named it the Hawking radiation, accordingly.  If the Universe is ever dominated by a handful of supermassive black holes, that won't violate the Second Law of thermodynamics since they're slowly falling apart anyhow.\n\nThere is no need for a white hole to exist, nor is there any observational evidence even suggesting that they might.
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Black holes almost certainly exist. Wormholes almost certainly do not.
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The defining factor of a black hole is that the escape velocity is higher than the speed of light.  This is a function of density and not total mass.  It's possible to have very small black holes.  They can even have masses smaller than that of an atom.  The LHC at CERN, which is expected to come online in 2007, may be capable of producing such microsingularities.  \n\nAs for our universe being a black hole...  from inside it's certainly not.  But, from "outside", if you can define such a thing, maybe it does appear as such, since light cannot escape out universe.  This assumes, however, that there is an outside from which this can be considered, and there's no proof, and perhaps no way to prove, whether or not there is.
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I've heard some call black matter a blackhole. The honest truth is we just dont know. Its a theory nothing more. A human concept to TRY to understand something. \n\nLike the notion of "time". We measure that based on our small experiences within our solar system. For all we know there could be a larger, grander universal measurement.
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Black Holes are strongly suspected to be responsible for a few powerful X-ray stars, and also to be at the center of most Galaxies - including ours.\n\nBut, while these are all much to far away for us to get to now - probably ever. You can see what the trip would be like with the Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars web page:\nhttp://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/rjn_bht.html\nand with the animations on the Falling into a Black Hole page:\nhttp://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/schw.shtml
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no, but i can tell you what we think it is:\n\nit is a star whose gravity is too great for the nuclear fusion in its core to negate.  it collapses in on itself and goes supernova.  then it is a neutron star.  if the gravity is still too great, it collapses some more and becomes a black hole.  its gravity is so strong that light itself cannot escape it (thus it is 'black').  they are suspected to be at the center of many galaxies, especially quasars and other active galaxies.  one is believed to be at the center of our own galaxy, the milky way.\n\nonce again, no one has really seen one, just the indirect evidence that one exists (strange star orbits, gas being sucked into nothing, strange bursts of some kind of rays (can't remember what kind) coming out of the poles, etc.\n\neverybody is pretty convinced that they exist.  its just kinda hard to prove.\n\nps the idiot down there who said black holes are dead galaxies has no clue what he is talking about. please ignore him.  and its not the size of an atom, its an infinitely small point, the swartzchild point.