{"id":154197,"date":"2023-01-02T16:26:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T22:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/if-you-could-see-a-black-hole-it-might-look-like-a-cosmic-koosh-ball"},"modified":"2023-01-02T16:26:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T22:26:01","slug":"if-you-could-see-a-black-hole-it-might-look-like-a-cosmic-koosh-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/if-you-could-see-a-black-hole-it-might-look-like-a-cosmic-koosh-ball","title":{"rendered":"If you could see a black hole, it might look like a cosmic koosh ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/if-you-could-see-a-black-hole-it-might-look-like-a-cosmic-koosh-ball.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Year 2022 <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-face_with_colon_three\" title=\":3\">face_with_colon_three<\/span> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Since the discovery of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfy-wire\/topic\/black-holes\">black holes<\/a>, they have inspired images of the universe\u2019s extremities in both scientists and storytellers. Their immense <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfy-wire\/biomanufacturing-stemcells-in-microgravity\">gravity<\/a> \u2014 sucking in any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfy-wire\/bad-astronomy-dark-matter-may-be-ancience-black-holes\">matter<\/a> and light unfortunate enough to come within grabbing distance \u2014 conjures images of crushing death and infinite possibility.<\/p>\n<p>That same gravity, however, creates a well which consumes indiscriminately and from whence nothing can ever emerge. The only trouble is that isn\u2019t the case. Among Stephen Hawking\u2019s many accomplishments was the discovery that black holes actually radiate very slowly and will eventually evaporate. This discovery, while enough to make Hawking famous, threw a wrench in contemporary astrophysics <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/have-we-solved-the-black-hole-information-paradox\/\">by creating a paradox<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If a black hole compresses into a singular point at its center and is surrounded by a gravitational event horizon, then the radiation emerging from the horizon is necessarily separate from the matter in the middle. In short, that radiation contains none of the information related to the matter which fell inside. If that\u2019s true, then causality essentially breaks down around a black hole and physicists didn\u2019t like that one bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year 2022 face_with_colon_three Since the discovery of black holes, they have inspired images of the universe\u2019s extremities in both scientists and storytellers. Their immense gravity \u2014 sucking in any matter and light unfortunate enough to come within grabbing distance \u2014 conjures images of crushing death and infinite possibility. That same gravity, however, creates a well [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}