What Happens If You Destroy A Black Hole?

black holes can destroy everything but

can they be destroyed what

happens if we push physics to the absolute limit maybe

even breaking it and the universe in the process let's

create a tiny black hole about the mass of our moon in the courtskazak

labs and try to rip it apart

experiment one new kit

big booms break things so

to set the mood let's

explode the world's entire nuclear

Arsenal around our black hole

black holes swallow whatever crosses

their Event Horizon matter and energy

and since E equals MC squared

all the energy that enters a black hole increases

its mass the mass of a black hole is proportional to its size so

as we nuke our tiny black hole it just gets bigger and more massive

experiment two and antimatter annihilate

each other what will happen if we throw a moon's massive antimatter at it

unfortunately when an object enters a black hole the black hole will completely delete

its past identity whether

it's made of matter or of antimatter

black holes only care about gravity

which only depends on the total mass energy of an object and

the mass of a particle is the same as its corresponding anti-particle

so throwing an anti-moon has the same effect as throwing a moon the

black hole just gets more massive

this deleting ability of black holes is pretty interesting it

means that despite their size and power black

holes are in a way similar

to Elementary particles an elementary particle

like an electron is an extremely simple object fully

specified by just three numbers it's

Mass Spin and charge and

amazingly the same is true for black holes they

have a mess they can rotate and carry an electric charge

once a black hole forms it doesn't matter if it comes from a collapsed

star an anti-star or

a banana it will always be fully described by those three numbers nothing

else but if a black hole is basically a weird particle

could we destroy it with an anti-black

hole Experiment three anti-black

hole how exciting a

particle has the same mass as its corresponding antibarticle

but opposite charge since

a black hole has mass and electric charge its

corresponding anti-black hole should have the same mass and

opposite electric charge what

if we make them

sadly the charge will just add up and cancel out

so after the Collision we'll just get a new black hole twice as massive

with no okay we

need to think bigger and stretch physics harder

experiment four destroy the Event

it's true that a black hole can carry spill and charge but even for

these crazy objects there are limits if

the spin or the charge of a black hole becomes

too large something really weird will happen The

Event Horizon will in a simplified way we think of black holes as hiding

a singularity inside an

infinitely compressed Mass with

such strong gravity that

absolutely nothing can escape from its surroundings not even light this

is why a black hole looks like a black sphere of nothingness

The Event Horizon is the outer edge of this ultimate prism cross

it and you'll never be able to come back but

when a black hole rotates it

works a bit like a spinning washing machine it's

as if the rotation wants to repel nearby objects and push them out of

the black hole which doesn't happen because its gravity is so strong but

if the rotation gets too fast this

effect will win and the Event Horizon

will disappear nearby objects won't be imprisoned forever anymore the

same thing happens with the electric charge make

it too large and

our Ironclad jail will break open if

we manage to destroy the Event Horizon The

Singularity would still be there and

objects would still naturally fall towards it if

you hit it you would still die horribly and quickly

but the vicinity of the singularity

won't be an inescapable prison anymore you

could get as close as you want and come back

this should count as destroying the black hole

can we do it

experiment 5 overfeeding all we have to do is to overcharge

or over spin the black hole we

could do this by throwing objects with a small mass and a lot of

charge or angular momentum

so that the charge or spin increases

faster than the mass we

have to overfeed the black hole until it reaches the point where it breaks

open however whether you can actually do this is the subject of passionate

argument among physicists think

of a Charged black hole equal

charges repel each other and the more of the same charges you squish together

the more they push back so

let's say that we have a negatively charged black hole and we want to

overfeed it with electrons for example whose

charge is far larger than its mass

the electrons will feel an electrostatic

repulsion and the war electrons we throw the larger the negative charge of the

black hole will be and the stronger the repulsion but

once we reach the upper limit the

electrostatic repulsion will be so strong that it won't allow any more electrons to

come in at this point the black hole will refuse to be over fat

with the spin it's similar once

the black hole reaches its upper limit it

won't gobble more spin

but some scientists have discovered what looks like a loophole if

an instant before the black hole reaches the limit we throw the right amount

of matter in in just the right way it

looks like we could actually overfeed

it most scientists are skeptical but

let's give it a try anyway

the end breaking physics

there is a catch though the

Event Horizon of a black hole hides The Singularity

so destroying the Horizon would leave us with a naked Singularity

one that is not hidden by an event horizon and

this poses a problem it

could mean the end of physics as we know it there's

a big dirty secret about black holes contrary

to widespread belief The Singularity of a black hole is not really at its

Center no it's in the future of

whatever crosses the Horizon black

holes warp the universe so drastically that

at the Event Horizon space

and time switch their roles once

you cross it Falling

Towards the center means

going towards the future that's

why you can't escape

stopping your fall and turning back would be just as impossible as stopping time

and traveling to the Past

so the singularity is actually in your future not

in front of you and

just like you can't see your own future you

won't see the singularity until you hit it but

you also can't hit something that's in your future any

sort of experience it like

you'll experience your next birthday when

it happens singularities that are in the future are not a problem because we

can't see them or interact with them but

a naked Singularity would be in front of us for all of us to

see what would we see well

the whole point is that it's impossible to know

a singularity is a region of infinite gravity and gravity is the bending of

space-time at a singularity

the bending is so radical that the fabric of space-time is literally broken

space and time don't exist anymore this

means that you can't predict

anything since predicting means making a forecast about

where and when something will

but where and when have lost their

so we have an unpredictable thing with infinite gravity and therefore infinite

energy this means that anything could come out of it for no reason for

a pile of bananas to Lost socks or a solar system

predictability causality and physics as we know it would break down

we think that singularities

should exist in nature because we can prove that under very general conditions

gravitational collapse leads to the formation of singularities

however scientists think that nature forbids the formation of naked singularities

something enforces the creation of an event horizon around them to

prevent their Insanity from infecting the rest of the universe without

event Horizons physics may not make sense at all

so although black holes have been portrayed as the ultimate Monsters of the universe

they may actually be the heroes that keep us safe from The Madness of

singularities so if we do destroy the Horizon we

might destroy the fundamental rules of the universe you

know what let's not do that

the safe option as far as we know there's just one safe method to

destroy a black hole wait

all black holes amid tiny particles a phenomenon called Hawking radiation this

process causes them to slowly lose Mass until

they eventually evaporate leaving behind no Horizon and

no naked singularity the time it takes for a black hole to completely evaporate

depends on its mass

for our mini black hole the size of a spec of dust it will

be about 10 to the power of 44

years 10 billion trillion

trillion times the present age of the universe so

is it possible to destroy a black hole

yes we just have to wait

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