/sci/ - Science & Math

Because https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03808

what is it about black holes that makes them the number one most popular popsci topic of discussion amongst the brainlet soience fangoys?
is it the comic bookish aspects of the spectacular, unrealistic and completely non disprovable conjectures which go along with the topic that make black holes so popular amongst the scientist posers and wannabes?

Because that’s how they actually look. The accretion disk appears to lens around like that because some of the light emitted from it is deflected by the black hole (around the top say). Thus, if we were to observe this, we would see the image of the backside of the accretion disk above the black hole. This fact has been known for a long time but only became widely appreciated after the movie Interstellar came out

>>15528193

Believe it or not, the film interstellar.

>>15528193
because that's how they look, there's light all around them

>>15528193
Is there a measurable period of the theme rotation over here?

>>15528265
is this what a scientist looks like?

>>15528218
>t. Zoomer retard

Black holes and quantum woo were pop soi long before Interstellar.

>>15528193
https://youtu.be/Q1bSDnuIPbo?t=16m45s

>>15528295
That specific depiction of them is because of the movie.

>>15528218
I hated this movie with passion and how every soientist tries to shill it like it's something good.
Wow he sneeded into black hole and came out young but his sister/wife/Daughter was old!!! Drama of the century!!!

>>15528384
filtered

>>15528207
Oooh
Low resolution meme Image of a still shot, with an artist rendition.
Uses pop science tabloits with CGI renditions of what it "suppose" to look like.

Of an object that is tens to hundrets of lightyears away.
>unverified of cause
Extreme interpretations which gave birth to unverivfyable memes like
>event horizon
>wormholes
>it happens when stars collapse
>it has so much mass that it bends light
>dark energy
>antimatter at its core
>potential source of endless energy
>black hole emits deadly radioactive rays

An object.
Nobody ever can reach.
Which is an distant object, so far away that it is unfathomable.
But for some reason, without any verification, sci-tards go "woaah".

The closest black hole is 1,600 lightyears away.
>That is 1.5137×10^16 km.
Or:
>15,137,000,000,000,000km
Or
>~15 Quadrillion km

And you really believe they posses the ability to accuratly observe such an object and determine it properties by mild fluctuations of light?
Or even that the distance is accurate?
Scitards might as well just believe in sky daddy.

>>15528390
Yeah stupid people like this film.
Smart one understand that their ship would have not enough delta V to leave orbit so close to blackhole.

>>15528464
>Event horizon
Given the relativity has been proven time and time again, we can, with great certainty, conclude that event horizons are a thing

>wormholes
For now they're only mathematically possible, no one's ever observed one, but there may have been small scale experiments for all I know

>it happens when stars collapse
Mathematically possible and consistent with our models, but unfortunately there have been no direct post-supernova observations that confirm it so far, we've only detected white dwarves and neutron stars

>it has so much mass it bends light
Just like our sun and the earth and literally anything with mass

>dark energy
Hasn't been directly observed and/or measured, but it would solve a few issues with our current models

>antimatter at its core
Never heard that one before

>potential source of infinite energy
There's no such thing, the only practical way to use black holes for power generation is by farming hawking radiation, but that requires you to continously dump matter into it, otherwise it'll rapidly decay and violently release all of its converted energy (a big fucking explosion)

>black hole emits deadly radioactive waves
In today's thread, anon learns that high energy particles are actually dangerous. Does he know about sunscreen? We may never know

Apart from my limited knowledge, I'm sure you can find various small-scale experiments that have been performed over the years which should lend more credibility to some of those theories
But you won't because you bask in ignorance and seek confirmation for "proving them sciencetards wrong" while you use equipment made by said sciencetards without ever batting an eye
I should stop visiting this godforsaken piece of shit forum

>>15529411
>hurrr duurr i heckin love rick and morty

>>15528193
https://youtu.be/l6jDMsfsrLI