Imagine if a black hole were to pop-up by or on Earth. Is there any possible defense? If you nuked it, the energy and matter from the bomb would simply be sucked into the black hole, right? Could it be contained? Extinguished?
2006-12-15 07:13:02 · 12 answers · asked by Kevin C 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Nuking it would actually make things worse (doesn't it always?) as it would add energy or mass (which are the same) to the black hole.
Apart from moving the earth, there's nothing we can do. And good luck doing just that.
Of course, the real question is: would we notice? I think not, in fact we could already be inside the event horizon right now.
2006-12-16 03:27:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No defense. You could not blow it up. By the way, they don't just pop up. One would have to travel from outside the solar system to get to Earth. If it was small we might deflect it so that it did not hit Earth, just like is being considered for an asteroid. It would have to be a small black hole though. Small black holes are theoretically possible, but the only black holes we know about are more massive than the Sun, so we would have no hope of deflecting something like that. However, all known black holes are far outside our solar system and will never, ever, hit Earth or even enter our solar system.
2006-12-15 07:21:20 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No defense to what you envision...yet. We can make one indeed "pop up" here. The trick is containment. Gravity can be bent in a fashion that would prevent things from falling into it (even light). The key is in new technology that allows us to render things invisible. The concept for these devices shows promise as dampers for gravity, sound, light, seismic activity and may one day eliminate inertia. That means we may be able one day to study black holes up close. As far as mini black holes in labs goes, even if one got away it would be eons before it was pea sized and even then it would find it's own level (center) within earth and slowly consume the core, because there is several tons of stellar fallout raining down on earth the hole would be consumed by a bigger hole (like the one at the center of the Galaxy) before it had any effect on earth's mass.
2006-12-15 07:42:17 · answer #3 · answered by AWM 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a very small black hole could theoretically be contained. however, if a black hole, even a small one, were to 'pop-up' on earth... survival would not be likely. Too much distortion would be caused even of it took awhile for the black hole to suck everything in.
You could not get a bomb close enough to effect anything. If it was close enough it would already be ripped apart by gravitational forces.
As for if one popped up by Earth, again survival not likely, but would depend on how far away it was as to how long we had.
And I don't know of anyway to extinguish a black hole other than by decreasing its mass. It would be rather difficult playing tug -o- war with a black hole.
2006-12-15 07:24:17 · answer #4 · answered by Black Dragon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First off, black holes don't just "pop up". They are created by certain types of stars cataclysimic collapses.
Secondly, they absorb everything. The mass of the explosion of a nuclear explosion would be almost immeiately contained and drawn into the black hole.
Very small black holes have actually been created and contained by physicists at CERN. However, these physicists say that it would take 50-100 years for these black holes to "gobble-up" even 1 atom.
2006-12-15 07:32:49 · answer #5 · answered by AresIV 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A black hole can have an electrical charge, so perhaps with some future advanced technology you could charge up a black hole (for example, by throwing enough electrons into it), and then move it by means of electric or magnetic fields.
2006-12-15 13:47:58 · answer #6 · answered by Grouchy Dude 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If a large black hole appeared near earth,the earth would be consumed immediately.
If a 1mm diameter black hole appeared near the earth it would sink to the center of the earth and consume it from the inside!
2006-12-16 02:59:21 · answer #7 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No nothing not even light can escape a black hole u cant stop it
2006-12-15 07:18:14 · answer #8 · answered by TK 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we cant do nothing, nothing can stop a black hole since is the force most powerful of the universe
2006-12-15 07:19:52 · answer #9 · answered by shyboycap 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure. although that's worth pointing out that particular relativity predicts that they'll orbit one yet another for somewhat inflicting gravitational waves to unfold around the universe.
2016-12-11 09:48:20 · answer #10 · answered by hergenroeder 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋