What can leave a black hole?

Black holes are the blackest things in the universe. Because of their enormous, space-bending gravity, everything that falls into them is instantly ripped apart and lost. Scientists have never seen a black hole, because nothing, not even light, can escape them. Well, almost nothing.
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Can anything leave a black hole?

According to Einstein's general theory of relativity, the gravity of a black hole is so intense that nothing can escape it.
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What object can escape a black hole?

Anything outside this surface —including astronauts, rockets, or light—can escape from the black hole. But once this surface is crossed, nothing can escape, regardless of its speed, because of the strong gravitational pull toward the center of the black hole.
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Did something escape a black hole?

You may have heard that nothing – not even light – can escape a black hole, but this isn't strictly true. Anything that crosses the event horizon is forever lost, but the hot disc of matter swirling around the black hole can emit dazzlingly powerful X-rays visible from Earth.
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Is there a white hole?

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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Can humans create a black hole?

To study the phenomenon more closely, physicists in Israel managed to create a lab-grown, analogue black hole using some thousand atoms. This faux black hole exhibited all properties of a black hole in the state in which it is believed to exist in space.
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Can Tachyons escape a black hole?

Since the disturbance of a localized tachyon cannot spread faster than c, it therefore cannot escape the inside of a black hole's event horizon.
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What is a white black hole?

White holes are theoretical cosmic regions that function in the opposite way to black holes. Just as nothing can escape a black hole, nothing can enter a white hole. White holes were long thought to be a figment of general relativity born from the same equations as their collapsed star brethren, black holes.
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Does time exist in a black hole?

For outside observers, a black hole is one solidary element, and there is no proper time inside the black hole, but there is only the observed coordinate time according to our spacetime coordinates.
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Can a quasar escape a black hole?

No, a superheated quasar cannot escape a black hole once it crosses the all important Schwarzschild radius, the point at which it is not possible for...
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Can gravity escape a black hole?

As such, gravity doesn't escape from within the interior of the black hole: it's simply caused by the hole's presence. If black holes collide, however, the space-time surrounding them responds by producing ripples known as gravitational waves; but again they aren't 'escaping' from within the black holes.
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Can neutrinos escape a black hole?

Yes. Not even the light, which has no mass, can escape when it goes too near to a black hole, let alone the (tinily) massive neutrinos.
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How long is 1 minute in a black hole?

Black hole news: Standing on edge of black hole would cause 700 years to pass in 1 minute | Science | News | Express.co.uk.
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Do you age slower in a black hole?

In short, a person near a black hole will age slower compared to someone far away from the black hole. This is because the passing of time is slowed down due to the extremely strong gravitational field near the black hole and thus, any physical aging processes will also happen slower.
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Are wormholes real?

Wormholes are shortcuts in spacetime, popular with science fiction authors and movie directors. They've never been seen, but according to Einstein's general theory of relativity, they might exist.
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Can we create wormholes?

To create a wormhole on Earth, we'd first need a black hole. This is problematic: creating a black hole just a centimetre across would require crushing a mass roughly equal to that of the Earth down to this tiny size. Plus, in the 1960s theorists showed that wormholes would be incredibly unstable.
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What is a light hole?

A white hole is a bizarre cosmic object which is intensely bright, and from which matter gushes rather than disappears. In other words, it's the exact opposite of a black hole.
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Do we live in white holes?

There are no known physical circumstances that can lead to the existence of white holes. They are purely hypothetical (due to the math). Though Smolin says that they actually exist on the other side of black holes.
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Are Tachyons real?

Tachyons have never been found in experiments as real particles traveling through the vacuum, but we predict theoretically that tachyon-like objects exist as faster-than-light 'quasiparticles' moving through laser-like media.
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Will our Sun become 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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Why can Hawking radiation escape black holes?

Researchers observe stationary Hawking radiation in an analog black hole. Black holes are regions in space where gravity is very strong—so strong that nothing that enters them can escape, including light. Theoretical predictions suggest that there is a radius surrounding black holes known as the event horizon.
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Is Earth in a black hole?

Read our answers to some of the big questions about black holes. Despite their abundance, there is no reason to panic: black holes will not devour Earth nor the Universe. It is incredibly unlikely that Earth would ever fall into a black hole.
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Can a black hole swallow Earth?

Will Earth be swallowed by a black hole? Absolutely not. While a black hole does have an immense gravitational field, they are only “dangerous” if you get very close to them.
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Who proved black holes exist?

'" Roger Penrose (left) proved black holes are real objects. Andrea Ghez (center) and Reinhard Genzel (right) showed that one weighing 4 million times as much as the Sun lurks in the heart of our galaxy. Since Penrose's advances, astronomers have found a wealth of evidence for black holes.
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