Supercomputer clue to black holes,

[Weiss Pinguin]

Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

Fun Fact: You can survive in a hard vacuum for about 90 seconds. I spent 28 years not knowing this.

Seems Hollywood has spent the last 28 years not knowing it either

[Dowly]

And of course, there's an quiz on how long you can survive in a vacuum:
http://www.oneplusyou.com/q/v/space_vacuum

(It probably ask if you want to register somewhere, but just click the 'not thanks, take me to the results' button on bottom-right corner)

48 seconds here.

If there's any truth to the things there's written on the result page, I think Event Horizon got pretty close to it when that young guy blew himself out into the space.

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Dowly

And of course, there's an quiz on how long you can survive in a vacuum:
http://www.oneplusyou.com/q/v/space_vacuum

(It probably ask if you want to register somewhere, but just click the 'not thanks, take me to the results' button on bottom-right corner)

48 seconds here.

1:29 here.

If there's any truth to the things there's written on the result page, I think Event Horizon got pretty close to it when that young guy blew himself out into the space.

One of the few movies or TV shows to get it right. There was a Star Trek TNG episode that did it right once a long time ago.

[Gerald]

is that it is a pure coincidence that they went by the name "black" In our references, we know little about these phenomena, and then there is room for speculation,on the planet we live in (Tellus) will experience a much longer future no one can imagine,and if it ever comes to our attention (which I highly doubt) the data will likely be composed of entirely different values and materials if they so-called "black hole".

[Dowly]

Think the Black Hole name came from the method they use even today to look for them: watching for black areas in space that look 'funky' and see how the planets/stars behave there. If they seem to have irregular paths and go faster at certain points of the path, it's safe to assume there is an Black Hole there that is pulling the planets/stars to such an odd paths.

This of course just my assumption how the name came to be, might be wrong.

As for knowing about the BH's, I'd say we don't know much, but we can assume a lot. We assume there's an huge mass in the center that pulls nearby objects to it, we also can assume that it is more of an grinder than an bottomless pit as it shoots out particles when it's "consuming" something, as to chew and spit it out again. I'm quite sure I saw/read from somewhere that they have a pretty good idea on how BH's are born too (big star imploding or something like that).

Again, this something I pulled from memory, might be wrong.

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Think the Black Hole name came from the method they use even today to look for them: watching for black areas in space that look 'funky' and see how the planets/stars behave there. If they seem to have irregular paths and go faster at certain points of the path, it's safe to assume there is an Black Hole there that is pulling the planets/stars to such an odd paths.

This of course just my assumption how the name came to be, might be wrong.

As for knowing about the BH's, I'd say we don't know much, but we can assume a lot. We assume there's an huge mass in the center that pulls nearby objects to it, we also can assume that it is more of an grinder than an bottomless pit as it shoots out particles when it's "consuming" something, as to chew and spit it out again. I'm quite sure I saw/read from somewhere that they have a pretty good idea on how BH's are born too (big star imploding or something like that).

Again, this something I pulled from memory, might be wrong.

This is exactly what my first thoughts respond to what they so-called "black holes" stands for,and as you say we do not know much and what we know is that all goes so fast according to the knowledge we have, which is not even a drop in the ocean,and I think there never can be reached perhaps, in theory....

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Vendor

This is exactly what my first thoughts respond to what they so-called "black holes" stands for,and as you say we do not know much and what we know is that all goes so fast according to the knowledge we have, which is not even a drop in the ocean,and I think there never can be reached perhaps, in theory....

Aye, right you are. I love space, I love watching towards the stars on a dark cloudless sky and try to figure out what the heck all this is. Mind boggling, but cool as hell.

Check this video, it's from the user I posted earlier "Spacerip". Show's some footage of stars/planets orbiting a Black Hole:

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Aye, right you are. I love space, I love watching towards the stars on a dark cloudless sky and try to figure out what the heck all this is. Mind boggling, but cool as hell.

Check this video, it's from the user I posted earlier "Spacerip". Show's some footage of stars/planets orbiting a Black Hole:

And this shows even more what we're talking about, or what we want to talk about,I like what I see a dark night, look up, so overwhelming and all elusive the purpose of taking advantage of opportunities to experience.

[Aramike]

Detecting them from their Hawking Radiation is another possibility although I'm not sure if that has yet been accomplished.

It likely will never be accomplished, as Hawking radiation involves purely theoretical, tiny particles and anti-particles that usually form in empty space and nearly instantaneously annihilate themselves. Hawking radiation involves the standard appearance of such particles at the event horizon of the black hole, except this time gravity pulls in one of the particles allowing the other to escape. The particle pulled in must have negative energy due to the Conservation law, meaning that negative particle would annihilate energy within the black hole, causing it to slowly "evaporate".

The normal annihilation of such virtual particles gives off a minute amount of energy (more precisely, it releases borrowed energy) that CAN be experimentally detected through what is known as the Casimir effect. However, without that annihilation, proving the existance of such particles will likely remain impossible for some time to come.

Originally Posted by Vendor

And this shows even more what we're talking about, or what we want to talk about,I like what I see a dark night, look up, so overwhelming and all elusive the purpose of taking advantage of opportunities to experience.

Go up in a small airplane and climb above 5,000' AGL on a clear night and the sky literally explodes with stars.