Sources please.
2006-06-21 10:11:35 · 14 answers · asked by someon 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Thank you all. I was in a fight with my friend over this and you proved me right!
2006-06-21 12:14:44 · update #1
There are no black holes close enough for a terrestrial probe to reach them yet. According to current theory, the intense gravitational field would trap any electromagnetic signal the probe might be sending out after it crossed the event horizon, so we wouldn't know what happened in any event.
2006-06-21 10:17:29 · answer #1 · answered by Traveller 3 · 9⤊ 3⤋
No, because we haven't actually found a black hole that we can, for certain, point to and say, "There! There is a black hole." We see things going on that can best be explained by a theoretical black hole, be we have no way of being sure. If we sent a probe to a suspected black hole (pretty expensive experiment), once beyond the event horizon, we wouldn't know what happend to it.
2006-06-21 10:20:06 · answer #2 · answered by Vince M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course not we haven't even been able to reach the nearest star which is Proxima Centauri about 4-6 light years away from the Solar system.. On the other hand, the existence of black holes is purely theoretical scientists haven't been able to find or verified a black hole anywhere in the milky way... Probably in the future, but that's something me and my webdatedotcom chick is arguing about...
2006-06-21 17:07:28 · answer #3 · answered by thynoe123 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, no manmade probe has been capable of reaching a black hole. If it did, it would in theory disrupt the radio transmissions transmitted from the probe. Time would actually freeze inside of the black hole due to the suppoused light-speed rotation.
2006-06-21 10:21:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not yet. The space probe will destroy. The Voyager is out of the Solar System though (and the first to do so, I think). (Our Sun will never become a black hole. Why? It's too small!)
2006-06-21 11:24:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not even close. The farthest man-made object in space right now is only still reaching the edge of our solar system. The nearest black hole is more than 1000 light years away!
2006-06-21 10:56:31 · answer #6 · answered by Science_Guy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, out probes had barely left the solar system.
A probe going towards the black whole would be swallowed by it eventually.
2006-06-21 10:14:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A black hole theoretically does emit gamma(?) rays. I read about it in a stephen hawking book. Theorietically they evaporate over time.
2006-06-21 10:50:00 · answer #8 · answered by darcy_t2e 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the nearest black hole is in the center of the universe which is hundreds of thousands of lightyears away. we haven't even gone past the moon but we are making a journey to one of the moons of jupiter or saturn i think.
2006-06-21 12:49:50 · answer #9 · answered by boricua82991 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No not yet, if it did it would be crushed
It is NOT a gateway, it is an area of high density bcoz not even light waves can escape
2006-06-21 10:20:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋