Re: Black Holes


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from Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net>
subject Re: Black Holes
date Tue, 2 Dec 1997 18:02:16 -0800 (PST)
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Animantoric (Jeremy) wrote:
> >horizon. These black holes slowly radiate themselves away, finally
> >disappearing in a flash of high-energy radiation.
> Yeah right...

Stephen Hawking came up with this. The pervasive theory is that black
holes basically slowly  'evaporate' away via interactions at the event
horizon. A big win for quantum physics.

> >     If a micro-black hole is created with a mass of greater than 10^17
> >grams, it would still be around today. This mass corresponds to about a
> >cubic kilometer of water. In terms of size, it would be smaller than an
> >electron!
> If it is ultimately compressed, it has no size...

But its not ultimately compressed. It has finite size, but nevertheless it
is very, very small.

-Dan


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