seeing a black hole...?

Question

i know that its impossible for us to see black holes right now because light, at its high speed, cant escape them.

but! if you do some research you can see that scientists have been able to speed up a beam of light several times faster than 186,000 miles a second. couldnt we use this to view a black hole? shine a beam of accelerated light towards a black hole and hope its strong enough to escape its gravity and give us a clear view of the black hole.

ok maybe i wasnt clear. anything with gravity has an escape velocity. with blackholes it just happens to be faster than the speed of light. but if u actually do some research youll see they have been able make a beam of light move faster than 186,000 miles/second.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/07/060721152533.htm

ok, thank you to the people that somewhat knew what i was talking about.

Answer 1

um no.


Dr Gunter Nimtz of the University of Koblenz (AKA the guys in charge of the faster than C experiment)

"The new experiment does not provide an answer to the fundamental question of whether faster-than-light transport of information is possible"
in 1994 when they first tried

and now again in 2007

Answer 2

If a black hole could exist seeing it would not be possible.
It would act like any celestial body of the same mass,and could be detected by it's influence on other celestial bodies.
It could no doubt eclipse some thing behind it but getting close enough to do this would not be possible.
A black hole would be a 2 to 3 solar mass sphere about 3 km in diameter,at a distance of 50,000 miles would make it completely with no disc and at that distance you would be swallowed by it.
The speed of light can never be exceeded to do so you would have adjust the original space-time pulse and make it smaller,which would put it out of existence.

Answer 3

Firstly, it turns out, black holes aren't exactly black. Anything falling within the event horizon is more or less lost to the ages, but things which only nearly fall within that limit are accelerated and shot out with ludicrous energy. All the the black holes candidates astronomers have identified are strong sources of x-rays. So it's not that we can't see a black hole, it's that we cannot see *inside* a black hole.

Secondly, according to Richard Feynman, photons can and do travel at speeds other than the speed of light. Sometimes faster, sometimes slower. But such photons do not have staying power; they don't last very long and cannot travel long distances. "Long" in this case means about the width of an atom or so. So even if we could harness such photons, we couldn't see very far with them.

Answer 4

I maybe mistaken about this but I believe the rate of speed that matter and light being pulled into the black hole is faster than 186,000 mps.

Answer 5

Black holes prevent light from ever escaping them because the immense mass of black holes bends spacetime back on itself. Everything in the universe is embedded in spacetime, so no matter how fast a beam of light is moving it still must conform to the shape of spacetime.

Answer 6

Even if that were possible - and I don't think it is - the closest black hole is incredibly far away and it would take hundreds of years to accomplish this.

How can you accelerate light faster than light? The speed of light is a constant.

Answer 7

I haven't read about that experiment in any detail, but I believe the light beam was only exceeding c for the time it was within a special gas chamber. The beam exited the chamber before it should have, but at the usual 3x10^8m/sec.

So this wouldn't be our black hole explorer beam. :(

Answer 8

I read a lot of articles on space.com and I don't recall anything that can escape from a black hole but they can measure their size with different light spectrums at certain observatories. Check it out at www.space.com. They even have a site for SETI. There was a recent article about a hole of a different type discovered recently.