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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
sure enough, radio telescopes were trained on areas thought to be black holes, and the very very low radiation was found, totally consistent with hawking's estimates!!!!!
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I think that the jury is still out on Hawking Radiation.
it's gone from photons skimming the edge of the event horizon to be sling-shot back into space, to thermodynamic conversion of a portion of the energy consumed to maintain equilibrium (the energy is converted to x-rays). some black holes do emit x-ray jets from their poles, however the bulk of them are only detectable by red-shift analysis of superoccluding bodies.
I love me some black holes! <3
in fact, my current theory on the Big Bang is that it was a "white hole". I think that given a long amount of time, a black hole can consume enough to reach a critical mass where the combined gravity of it's meals rip space/time (although only momentarily). this temporary wormhole would funnel particles across the dimensional barrier which then explosively expand upon reaching "free space". extra-dimensional diarrhea for the win!
yes, I want to be a mad scientist when I grow up.