Re:What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? (2019)
by Causality1 on Friday August 13, 2021 @10:55AM
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Not quite. Point singularities can't spin, and since a black hole with no spin as about as possible as real mass with a temperature of absolute zero, every black hole we're ever likely to observe is actually a ringularity or other two-dimensional configuration.
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Re:What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? (2019)
by sli on Friday August 13, 2021 @01:15PM
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Thanks for this comment, it was enlightening. I'd never much thought about this because physics is really not my forte, but after a few minutes of thinking about it, it's really intuitive why a point singularity can't spin. I can't explain it in any properly rigorous or technical way, but it makes no sense that someone could (by convention, of course) designate a "front" and "rear" to a mass with zero length in every direction.
Re:What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? (2019)
by heavenlyblue on Friday August 13, 2021 @01:24PM
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What does it mean “to spin” in this case?
Re:What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? (2019)
by renewiltord on Friday August 13, 2021 @01:51PM
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It means the black hole has angular momentum, which is detectable due to the resultant frame dragging (effect of the spinning on the spacetime around it) and presumably also due to the flattening of the sphere of the event horizon.