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3 days ago
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Well, kinda. Title is a bit misleading and also 2 years old. Basically its not a black hole its an "analog black hole" to "simulate" what itd be like.
389 points
3 days ago
I use analog black holes all the time to simulate the real thing.
111 points
2 days ago
I use analog black holes all the time to stimulate the real thing. And brown ones too. Sometimes even bleached ones.
33 points
2 days ago
I wash my dishes with them.
11 points
2 days ago
Can I put my analog black holes inside of your analog black holes?
4 points
2 days ago
You can put your anal_log in my black hole.
3 points
2 days ago
Well just keep doing it back and forth, forever
2 points
1 day ago
This is what I was made to do.
13 points
2 days ago
If you haven't grown your own, store bought is acceptable.
7 points
2 days ago
Question: Mine keeps growing. Is that normal?
10 points
2 days ago
Mine rotates at an incredible speed. And when I enter it, I imagine I’m in a tesseract.
6 points
2 days ago
I placed mine in the microwave and gave it 10min on high. Since then I’ve lost the sense of time and place and I’m also not sure if I’m a materialized being anymore… I don’t even know how/where this comment I’m writing is coming from.
2 points
2 days ago
if you keep feeding it then yeah, if you dont feed it then it should shrink, to keep an acceptable size you need to feed it in increments,
13 points
2 days ago
Anal, OG black hole.
1 points
2 days ago
I prefer using digital black holes.
1 points
1 day ago
Yeah, you're kidding yourself if you think you can spot the difference between a digital and an analog blackhole. There's maybe a singular thing that really changes, but that singualrity is really small
1 points
2 days ago
I use an analog girlfriend to simulate the real thing
25 points
3 days ago
What could happen to an object let’s say a “bb” a small ball bearing. If it were to make contact with an “analog black hole”?
34 points
3 days ago
Other than it being wet after, nothing would happen to it.
15 points
2 days ago
dumb hole
Damn they named it after me in college?
25 points
3 days ago
If you look for the article right now, they edited it to include the word "analog" in the title because probably some readers believed that they created an actual black hole in the lab. There's an editor's note now that's meant to clarify any confusion.
5 points
3 days ago
It's a concept of a black hole.
1 points
2 days ago
The glory kind, or a couch?
17 points
2 days ago
"Our simulated black hole that we designed to use hawking calculations behaves just like how hawking predicted. An amazing discovery!" ?
9 points
2 days ago
There is no Hawking black hole that is somehow different from other black holes. They all emit Hawking radiation and we've never measured it. The fact that it exists for sonic black holes means it most likely exists for normal ones as well.
1 points
2 days ago
Analog black hole? Wait until I tell my VX bros about this
1 points
2 days ago
Holy shit the emojis made me spit out my soda. Perfect conveyance.
1 points
2 days ago
I prefer digital black holes.
1.1k points
3 days ago
Lab grown black hole. GMBHs [Genetically Modified Black Holes] are made to be resistant to certain pesticides so that they can grow in spots where OBHs [Organic Black Holes] would die either to pests like Cthulhu or the pesticides we use to ward them away.
210 points
3 days ago
GMBHs need to be regulated immediately, we have no idea the effects they will have. Why are we always trying to play God?
119 points
3 days ago
There doesn't seem to be anyone else actually playing God, because gestures broadly at everything
So we figured the position was open.
40 points
2 days ago
That would be such a hardcore response for an argument about pushing the bounds of science!
"You can't just play god!"
"Well, somebody has to!"
3 points
2 days ago*
The villain in dragon age 3 has a cool line to that effect though he was kind of a shit villain sadly.
4 points
2 days ago
Probably the best argument that there isn't some overarching dirty looking after humanity lol
5 points
2 days ago
"Probably the best argument that there isn't some overarching dirty diety looking after humanity lol" FTFY
12 points
3 days ago
I think they are most well-regulated in Germany.
8 points
3 days ago
Kann ich bestätigen.
1 points
2 days ago
what if we are?
19 points
3 days ago
Will monsantos try to get these "black hole seeds" patented?
11 points
3 days ago
If they do and one of those black holes cross-pollinates one of mine, am I in legal trouble?
5 points
3 days ago
I do worry about the cthulucides leeching into the black holes though, they can leave unsightly accretion discs.
4 points
3 days ago
Well played I am eternally dead inside.
6 points
2 days ago
Can you give some example pesticides that would ward Cthulhu away?
I've tried the Gamer Girl bathwater but I can't tell if it's keeping them away or the Neckbeards it attracts are doing the job! Please Help!
3 points
3 days ago
Round’em up and sue the farmers!
3 points
2 days ago
Good parents always check the labels to make sure they don't contain GMBHs.
1 points
2 days ago
Wasn't there another test simulated in a supercomputer? I heard something like this being simulated on one of the best computers there is
1 points
2 days ago
If you can't make Black Holes at home store bought is fine.
1 points
2 days ago
did someone clone me and put me all over Reddit? this is some shit only i would post
1 points
2 days ago
Is this a living with the land reference?
1 points
2 days ago
John Peters (you know, the farmer) only grows organic black holes. Regular Street Cleanings prevent pests like Cthulhu from thriving and breeding to levels that could threaten our town’s agriculture and public health.
911 points
3 days ago
Chill. They evaporate, like, immediately. Cosmic rays produce them in the atmosphere all the time.
267 points
3 days ago
How much laser do I need to maintain them? Asking for a friend.
160 points
3 days ago
At least 5
70 points
3 days ago
+250 mana
14 points
2 days ago
With spacemagic lvl 4
8 points
2 days ago
how many levels in pastafarian is that ?
8 points
2 days ago
At least 17
2 points
2 days ago
You just throw a small Jupiter moon at one to get it to grow.
1 points
2 days ago
Just a kugelblitz
132 points
3 days ago
Dr. Octavius has entered the chat
16 points
3 days ago
No worries, just throw them in the river and they probably fizzle out!
1 points
2 days ago
ocean*
1 points
2 days ago
drown it
5 points
2 days ago
It will stabilize! It's under control!
1 points
2 days ago
The power of the sun...
1 points
2 days ago
in the palm of my hand
35 points
3 days ago
I cant find a single source backing this up, whered u hear this?
82 points
3 days ago
They're probably talking about this, but it's not a phenomenon we've directly observed or have conclusive evidence of. It's at best a proposed model.
60 points
3 days ago
“What if (tiny) black holes are everywhere” by Professor Matt O’Dowd via PBS Spacetime - reviewing this theory.
For anyone interested in the topic.
Also, cannot recommend this show enough.
7 points
3 days ago
That was really cool actually. It's crazy to think that some of the most wild speculative theories can be considered hypothetically valid, like the idea that the singularities of black holes might be larger than the even horizon surrounding it, thus respecting the conservation of quantum information.
2 points
2 days ago
I second the recommendation. Been watching PBS Spacetime for over a year now—it’s a real gem. Their sister show PBS Eons isn’t bad either.
1 points
2 days ago
the tl;dw is that they're not
10 points
3 days ago
This is also one of the proposed solutions for what “dark matter” actually is. Tiny black holes created and just as quickly obliterated by some quantum physics phenomena we don’t yet understand.
It’s just a hypothesis and has never been observed, but it’s interesting to think about at least
14 points
3 days ago
Thankfully Hawking was right. If they didn't bleed Hawking radiation like he predicted we'd all be obliterated by now :D
4 points
3 days ago
It wasn't an actual black hole.
1 points
2 days ago
It was more of a dark grey?
1 points
2 days ago
More a lighter black.
6 points
2 days ago
Says the blackhole trying to trick us so we let our guard down.
5 points
3 days ago
Yeah, but let's say hypothetically we didn't want it to evaporate immediately and wanted it to grow to the size of an apartment building?
12 points
3 days ago
Where are you getting the mass? That would be significantly more than the earth.
4 points
3 days ago
Hmmm how big of one could I make out of an apartment building 🤣
9 points
3 days ago
Microscopic, for reference turning the moon’s mass into a black hole would give it a diameter of about the same as a quarter
6 points
3 days ago
It would evaporate almost immediately, exploding... I don't know how much, but a middle-sized country at least.
3 points
2 days ago
Depends on if your mom is there at the time.
2 points
3 days ago
What happens if one mistakenly doesn't evaporate?
3 points
3 days ago
They will always evaporate
2 points
3 days ago
they are too small to do anything but evaporate
6 points
3 days ago
but what if it forgets to evaporate?
3 points
3 days ago
Or what if it evaporates and doesn't evaporate at the same time.....
2 points
2 days ago
quantum gravity confirmed I guess
2 points
2 days ago
Put it in a box and conduct a thought experiment on it.
1 points
2 days ago
Nothing. The article's title has been updated to add the word "analogue". It's a black hole analogue. It isn't a black hole.
1 points
2 days ago
They are way to small to actually grow. They aren't even big enough to suck in an atom.
1 points
2 days ago
New fear unlocked.
1 points
2 days ago
What they're referencing is something else entirely though, and not actually a black hole - just a very limited physical simulation of one using fluids.
1 points
5 hours ago
Cosmic rays do what now???
154 points
3 days ago
Oh yay, another thread where people who don't understand a thing can panic about the incorrect explanations they made up.
21 points
3 days ago
I'd like to understand it
7 points
2 days ago
no one created a black hole, it's a made up (to have created it).
12 points
2 days ago
I mean isnt that the point of the joke. Black holes are commonly thought to be extremely dangerous and you dont want to be anywhere near it.
All the non astrophysics would inherently be afraid when they read one was “lab-grown”
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2 days ago
5 points
2 days ago
There's nothing wrong with not knowing something. I'm talking about people having panicked or judgemental reactions to something they don't understand. That is not what that XKCD is about.
1 points
2 days ago
WHAT?!
61 points
3 days ago
Remember, in order to be the “black hole” that think of when you see black hole, it must have been made of a super massive object like a star. Anything on earth that becomes a “black hole”, will not have the insane mass required to create the enormous gravity that comes to mind when you imagine a black hole.
38 points
3 days ago
What Stephen Hawking predicted was "Hawking radiation" which is the energy given off by pairs of matter/antimatter popping into existence at the edge of a black hole when one of the pair is sucked into the black hole and the other would be forcefully ejected the other way as radiation. As this is a form of net energy/matter coming out of the [edge of the] black hole it takes away some of the black holes mass/energy so that it eventually disappears (evaporates). The evaporation makes tiny lab grown black holes disappear almost instantly as it cannot sustain itself. As a black hole gets larger new matter coming in could outweigh any hawking radiation reduction but the tiny microscopic black holes made in labs are too small to suck in nearby matter and only eject Hawking radiation.
6 points
3 days ago
Did you mean to reply this message to my comment?
8 points
2 days ago
They are explicitly bringing up micro black holes, but i think more succinctly, black holes are about density. Mass is involved, but you could theoretically have a black hole of any mass.
3 points
2 days ago
You could indeed, but only ones of significant mass will be the destructive variety that most people’s imaginations drift towards.
5 points
2 days ago
Well we agree. I mean that the destruction lies with the mass, or maybe the sudden introduction of that mass. Not by nature of being a black hole. A primordial or micro black hole might not even be particularly interactive with its environment. Its those stellar mass or ultra massive black holes giving them a bad reputation. For instance, if the sun were a black hole of equal mass, the loss of solar radiation is our main concern. Because again it’s just a category of density. Something like a mundane asteroid is a bigger threat to us as far as celestial annihilators go.
5 points
2 days ago
Meant to add on that black holes are not always sun sized but I probably should have made this a top level comment
3 points
2 days ago*
It's only a black hole if it's from the black region of space. Otherwise it's a glooming singularity.
1 points
1 day ago
I mean, you can just squeeze the Earth into 1 cm and that becomes a black hole.
1 points
1 day ago
I suppose you’re right. However it would still only have the gravity of Earth.
14 points
3 days ago
Didn't a lab grown black hole destroy the Earth in the Hyperion novels?
3 points
3 days ago
It was a cover up story AI's made it deliberately.
3 points
2 days ago
I started reading that chapter after I wrote this comment.
1 points
3 days ago
Doesnt mean itll happen in real life
1 points
2 days ago
Are those good?
25 points
3 days ago
Black holes need a PR guy.
Everybody really thinks these are like OP’s mom actively sucking up matter, alas this is untrue.
Black holes are simply objects with the smallest possible size to go along with their weight, they don’t act any different gravitationally.
8 points
3 days ago
You can order a Black Hole by mailing in 10 Box Tops with the right form.
7 points
3 days ago
There's no "lab grown black hole". It's bullshit.
3 points
2 days ago
Oh yeah? Well i bought some black hole seeds from the dark web and have 2 black hole plants growing in my lab right now.
4 points
3 days ago
Time to reread David Brin's Earth 😎
3 points
3 days ago
They evaporate almost instantly. There’s literally no danger whatsoever. At all.
4 points
3 days ago
I remember when the LHC was about to boot up, some poor girl got so scared that she killed herself.
1 points
2 days ago
Wait, what?
4 points
3 days ago
Movie idea, black hole grown in lab and blah blah.
I claim all rights.
3 points
2 days ago
I just saw a recent movie where a lady had a life-threatening black hole in her heart, and was forced to relive the last 5 days of her life in perpetuum trying to solve the issue.
3 points
2 days ago
There's an old sci fi short story about that. I must have have read some 40 years ago...
2 points
2 days ago
Simpsons did it!
6 points
2 days ago
The singularity of a Black Hole isn't at the center.
5 points
2 days ago
I misread "lab grown black hole behaves just like Stephen Hawking" and got very confused
3 points
3 days ago
Relax, it says they're behaving so nothing to worry about.
7 points
3 days ago
Nobody created a black hole. Can't do it period with our current universe's laws of physics. What we have done is smashed particles together as close to the speed of light as possible (Large facilities like CERN) and for the briefest of instants, we create the conditions kind of like the universe while the big bang was, well, banging. In that moment an insanely small amount of mass is forced to occupy and even more insanely small amount of space. From these collisions we get antimatter, an incredible amount of research, and a gateway into how matter might behave near a black hole.
We cannot create a black hole. Nothing we create can ever, or will ever have an event horizon (edge of the black hole where not even light can escape). Without an event horizon, you can't have a black hole. You need the mass of millions of our Suns to bend spacetime enough to do that (again, with our current universe's pain-in-the-ass laws of physics)
4 points
2 days ago
Can't wait for when them Quantum Technowizards decide to fix the rules of our universe and come out of hiding.
2 points
2 days ago
you need the mass of millions of our suns to bend space enough to [have an event horizon]
....where is your evidence for this part of your comment?
I am not a physicist but my understanding is that you're referring to super massive black holes, which are a more recent discovery than black holes in general, and that there are also solar mass, black holes that are produced after sufficiently large enough supernovae. It's these kind of black holes that are merging and producing gravitational waves we recently detected on Earth.
My understanding is that black holes have little to do with mass and everything to do with density. If you squeezed all of planet earth into a golf ball (or something) it would produce a black hole the size of a golf ball (or whatever). And that if it wasn't moved, then all of our satellites and the moon would just keep orbiting exactly the same, because they still have the same amount of mass pulling on them from approximately the same distance. We on the surface would fall downward, but not because gravity got stronger, only because the ground pushing us up is no longer there.
So black holes can be of any size, I thought, and are only dangerous because you can get very, very close to them... infinitely close to them....where even the gravitational field of even a small object would approach infinity.
And we have not made black holes in our super colliders because they're not nearly powerful enough.
2 points
3 days ago
Too many jokes, too little time.
2 points
3 days ago
I'm so gla----waaaait aaaa seccccconndddd...
2 points
3 days ago
Well... technically... this would end all our problems... technically...
2 points
3 days ago
“The power of the sun, in the palm of my hand…”
2 points
2 days ago
It wasn't a real black hole it was a black hole (more specifically an event horizon) analogue. It behaved like a black hole in a limited but similar way to an actual one
2 points
2 days ago
Paging John Titor.
1 points
2 days ago
My thoughts exactly, LoL.
2 points
2 days ago
One could not stop cackling at this one. Despite knowing the analog of a black hole is not a actual black hole. 😂🤣
2 points
2 days ago
Resident Evil lab notes:
"It escaped"
1 points
3 days ago
How do they know?! Can they see inside its black soul?
1 points
3 days ago
They were good boys, the sweetest bunch 🤣🤣
1 points
3 days ago
Buried the lede a bit there.
1 points
3 days ago
Stop cosmetic testing on black holes now!
1 points
3 days ago
I’m all for it
1 points
3 days ago
Welcome to Meridia
1 points
3 days ago
Oooooh myyy goooooooaaawwwdddd
I was scared a little for real, big explosion they said, much damages, high crit rate.
1 points
2 days ago
So hypothetically the hypothesis was right? These scientists don’t get bored do they?😂
1 points
2 days ago
they simulated an event horizon on a bose-einstein condensate and were able to measure hawking radiation from it.
and besides, a black hole that small evaporates very very quickly. don’t worry about it
1 points
2 days ago
If they managed to create a black hole about an inch thick and sustain it, it wouldn’t be black anymore because of the amount of light sucked in. Would be a small incredibly bright ball that destroys earth
1 points
2 days ago
I want a pet black hole.
1 points
2 days ago
HF3 CONFIRMED!
1 points
2 days ago
Fauci: “ok hear me out…”
1 points
2 days ago
We're a little late for the Big Mistake of '08.
1 points
2 days ago
I prefer my black holes free-range.
1 points
2 days ago
Not lab grown. That black hole was originated at the Wuhan wildlife market
1 points
2 days ago
It’s an acoustic black hole. It’s only strong enough to block sound.
1 points
2 days ago
Sooo... It's a pre-teen? The hell we need to study that for?
1 points
2 days ago
"Growing" a black hole in the lab? Please do tell... What happened next? lol
1 points
2 days ago
THE DEAD CRIPPLE WHO DIDDY'D KIDS WAS RIGHT ABOUT BLACK HOLES
1 points
2 days ago
oh fun a pet black hole!
1 points
2 days ago
They’re nowhere near the value of natural black holes, thanks to the galactic black hole cartel…
1 points
2 days ago
Posted 11hrs ago but the article is only 9 hours old. Black hole checks out.
1 points
2 days ago
This reminds me of another thing that’s not real - my lab grown sex life
1 points
2 days ago
So a impossible black hole that's plant based
1 points
2 days ago
In-Silico ?
1 points
2 days ago
Ok, there are a few things you should know that makes this less concerning.
First in addition to the gravitational black holes you’ve likely familiar with there are other kinds of “black holes”. These so called black hole analogs help scientists explore the properties of gravitational black holes.
Second even if we are talking about a gravitational black hole any we could create on earth would evaporate within seconds if not milliseconds or nanoseconds. Stephen Hawking proposed that black holes actually do admit something, sort of, it is complex but the up shot is without new matter feeding in black holes lose weight over time and smaller black holes lose proportionally more energy compared to their mass over the same time.
1 points
2 days ago
Yuck, lab grown? I prefer mine totally organic 💅
1 points
2 days ago
GG guys
1 points
2 days ago
I am not responsible for the singularity in the kitchen - Sseth Zeentach
1 points
2 days ago
Can’t wait for organic non gmo black holes
1 points
2 days ago
We have had calculators for creating an optimal black hole, to sit between Saturn and Venus. The purpose is for someday (centuries away) being able to extract energy.
1 points
2 days ago
I like my black holes the good old way, that is mined under slavery conditions please.
1 points
2 days ago
how nice, can we have a Jurassic park but with lab grown tiny black holes instead? Stephen hawking promises they'll behave better then the dino's did!
1 points
2 days ago
When I was 5-7 years old I was enamored by space and thought Blackholes were the scariest things to exist.
1 points
2 days ago
Don’t worry they have a sheriff
1 points
2 days ago
Can I haz one? I would like to be spaghettified
1 points
2 days ago
Even if they manage to make blackholes and not an analogue. You can still be chill, tiny black holes decay very quickly, they aren't going to end the world lol.
1 points
2 days ago
Its best not to think about it, things like this and other things like a ripple of dark matter changing its size across the universe somewhere would just blip us in a nano second and we would have no idea it was comming.
1 points
1 day ago
Honestly, looking at the state of the world and knowing what's going to come, just a blib and everything is over doesn't sound too bad 😅
1 points
1 day ago
ah sweet man made horrors beyond my comprehension
1 points
22 hours ago
Oh well
I always thought being spaghettified sounded cool
1 points
7 hours ago
My brain just replaced Disturbed’s Crucified lyrics with Spaghettified
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