pmk@prometheus.UUCP (Paul M Koloc) (08/11/85)
> P.S. I'll believe in black holes .... . . > Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn@BRL.ARPA> Is is possible for black holes (or neutron stars) to become "white holes"? My thought was that maybe a mechanism could be found that would allow "black holes" to suddenly start evaporating (disintegrating), thereby transforming themselves into a quasar. Maybe black holes and neutron stars aren't massive enough. Incidentally, Russians refer to black holes as "frozen" stars because as the density and total mass increase time slows down more and more and the star appears to freeze up, including putting out less and less light. I think that process of freezing may actually prevent the final transformation into a black hole, so consequently black holes may well NOT exist. - - NOTE: MAIL PATH MAY DIFFER FROM HEADER - - +-------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Paul M. Koloc, President: (301) 445-1075 | FUSION | | Prometheus II Ltd., College Park, MD 20740-0222 | this | | pmk@prometheus.UUCP; ..seismo!prometheus!pmk.UUCP | decade | +-------------------------------------------------------+--------+
markb@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Mark Biggar) (08/16/85)
Actually Russians refer to black holes as frozen or collapsed stars
because the phrase "black hole" when translated directly into russian
is considered obscene (i.e. meaning A**h*le).
Mark Biggar
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