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Re:Astronomers detect a black hole on the move by toomanybeersies on Sunday March 14, 2021 @05:43AM (#26453944)
The closest known black hole to Earth is 1000 lightyears away, so it's probably not much of a risk.
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Re:Astronomers detect a black hole on the move by runawaybottle on Sunday March 14, 2021 @08:37AM (#26454811)
We just need these things to start growing exponentially.
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Re:Astronomers detect a black hole on the move by prophesi on Sunday March 14, 2021 @11:49AM (#26456331)
As far as we know so far, there's still no way around the universal speed limit.
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Re:Astronomers detect a black hole on the move by de_nied on Sunday March 14, 2021 @12:05PM (#26456420)
Wormholes and such
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Re:Astronomers detect a black hole on the move by curtainsforus on Sunday March 14, 2021 @12:17PM (#26456498)
And the sleeping idiot-god at the center of everything could wake up, thus ending the universe. Same difference.
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Re:Astronomers detect a black hole on the move by de_nied on Monday March 22, 2021 @01:56PM (#26544241)
One is possible based in science, the other...possibly based in science. I was just saying that it is possible, not that it is probable.
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Re:Astronomers detect a black hole on the move by curtainsforus on Thursday March 25, 2021 @03:47PM (#26584546)
You're unlikely to get exponential uncontrolled growth of that sort using wormholes, anyway. It's generally considered that any wormholes arranged in such a way as to enable causality-violating space-time paths (which is likely if there's a lot of them and they're being flung around with black holes) would immediately collapse. Not that there's any clear mechanism for how a wormhole could form, anyway.
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