Do black holes vibrate?

And even the extreme objects known as black holes vibrate when disturbed by an infalling object or a collision. In fact, the oscillation properties of a black hole are surprisingly similar to those of a ringing bell or tuning fork.
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Do black holes make a noise?

Some produce relatively high pitches, because of the intensity of the gravitational waves, while others have a low bass rumbling. Some even make the sound of a wobbling top as the two black holes swirl around each other, before eventually meeting and becoming totally absorbed into one another.
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Do black holes pulsate?

Scientists refer to it as a heartbeat because the pulsating around the black hole creates a repetitive signal that can be detected. And the pulsating of this particular signal is sustained.
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Are black holes movable?

Scientists have long thought black holes could move, but such movement is rare because their immense size needs an equally substantial force to get them in motion.
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Can black holes suck sound?

Except: Black holes are so massive that light, which is faster than sound, can't escape. Sound can't travel in space (space has too much, well, space)
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Can a wormhole exist?

Einstein's theory of general relativity mathematically predicts the existence of wormholes, but none have been discovered to date. A negative mass wormhole might be spotted by the way its gravity affects light that passes by.
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Can a black hole swallow a galaxy?

Is it possible for a black hole to "eat" an entire galaxy? No. There is no way a black hole would eat an entire galaxy. The gravitational reach of supermassive black holes contained in the middle of galaxies is large, but not nearly large enough for eating the whole galaxy.
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Do white holes exist?

White holes cannot exist, since they violate the second law of thermodynamics. General Relativity is time symmetric. It does not know about the second law of thermodynamics, and it does not know about which way cause and effect go.
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Does black holes have gravity?

A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out. The gravity is so strong because matter has been squeezed into a tiny space. This can happen when a star is dying.
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What happens if two black holes collide?

It is possible for two black holes to collide. Once they come so close that they cannot escape each other's gravity, they will merge to become one bigger black hole. Such an event would be extremely violent. Even when simulating this event on powerful computers, we cannot fully understand it.
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What is a heartbeat of a black hole?

A new study has discovered that the powerful jets of wind that blast out of a black hole only occur after it has built up a hot outer layer of plasma, known as its corona. Researchers observed the behaviour of a black hole in our galaxy and developed a cosmic echocardiogram graph, showing its “heartbeat”.
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Can we produce 1100 dB sound?

1100 dB is loud beyond any imagination and it is incincievable that any sound of this level could be produced on earth. However sound does not produce a black hole.
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What is the loudest sound in the universe?

The 1883 Krakatoa volcano eruption was the loudest sound recorded on Earth, but there are much louder sounds in space, even though we technically can't hear them.
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Can you create a black hole by screaming?

So while a sound this loud would cause an unimaginably huge black hole, it would take a nuclear reactor consuming all of the matter of the universe several times over to produce the sound in the first place, so that's kind of moot.
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Does time stop in a black hole?

Time does stop at the event horizon of a black hole, but only as seen by someone outside the black hole. This is because any physical signal will get infinitely redshifted at the event horizon, thus never reaching the outside observer. Someone falling into a black hole, however, would not see time stop.
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How do you destroy a black hole?

For a black hole, any matter entering the event horizon is added to the mass. Shoot bullets at a black hole, and you just make a slightly more massive, slightly more dangerous black hole. Detonate a nuclear bomb inside the event horizon, and you only make the black hole more massive.
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What is beyond a black hole?

At the center of a black hole the gravity is so strong that, according to general relativity, space-time becomes so extremely curved that ultimately the curvature becomes infinite. This results in space-time having a jagged edge, beyond which physics no longer exists -- the singularity.
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Can black holes be portals?

According to a study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a team of researchers seeking to prove the existence of wormholes say they may have found evidence that some known black holes in the universe are entrances to portals that could allow travelers to venture through space-time.
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Could a black hole be a wormhole?

Over the years scientists have looked into the possibility that black holes could be wormholes to other galaxies. They may even be, as some have suggested, a path to another universe.
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What happens if a black hole meets a white hole?

If a proton did happen to impact one of these white holes, the white hole "would simply bounce away," Rovelli said. "They cannot swallow anything." If a black hole were to encounter one of these white holes, the result would be a single larger black hole, he added.
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Is our universe in a black hole?

The birth of our universe may have come from a black hole. Most experts agree that the universe started as an infinitely hot and dense point called a singularity.
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Can the Sun turn into a black hole?

Will the Sun become a black hole? No, it's too small for that! The Sun would need to be about 20 times more massive to end its life as a black hole.
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Is time Travelling possible?

Yes, time travel is indeed a real thing. But it's not quite what you've probably seen in the movies. Under certain conditions, it is possible to experience time passing at a different rate than 1 second per second. And there are important reasons why we need to understand this real-world form of time travel.
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What creates a white hole?

White holes are created when astrophysicists mathematically explore the environment around black holes, but pretend there's no mass within the event horizon. What happens when you have a black hole singularity with no mass? White holes are completely theoretical mathematical concepts.
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