Lior Burko, associate professor of physics at Georgia Gwinnett College and lead researcher on the study. "We developed a first-of-its-kind computer simulation of how physical fields evolve on the approach to the center of a rotating black hole," said Dr. What they found was the dynamics of their rapid rotation create a scenario in which a hypothetical spacecraft and crew might avoid gravitational disintegration during approach. Kerr black holes, and what might be found in the mysterious realm beyond the event horizon. Were it to have a healthy rotation to it there's a possibility, based on new research, that you and your ship could survive the trip intact.Ī team of researchers from Georgia Gwinnett College, UMass Dartmouth, and the University of Maryland have designed new supercomputer models to study the exotic physics of quickly-rotating black holes, a.k.a. That is, of course, if you were foolish enough to approach a non-spinning black hole. It'd be the end of the cosmic road, with nothing left of you except perhaps some slowly-dissipating "information" leaking back out into the Universe over the course of millennia in the form of Hawking radiation. Whatever remained would continue to fall, accelerating and stretching into "spaghettified" strands of ship and crew toward-and across-the event horizon. The closer you got the more gravity would yank at your vessel, increasingly more on the end closest to the black hole than on the farther side until eventually the extreme tidal forces would shear both you and your ship apart. Get too close to one and you'd find your ship hopelessly caught sliding down a gravitational slippery slope toward an inky black event horizon, beyond which there's no escape. It's no secret that black holes are objects to be avoided, were you to plot yourself a trip across the galaxy. New research suggests this could be possible. In "Interstellar" Matthew McConaughey saves the day by traveling into a black hole.
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