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[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Black holes aren't "dark"...

[-] yakko@feddit.uk 27 points 8 months ago

These ones will be quite dim

[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I suppose after a billion billion billion or so years, it probably would be

[-] yakko@feddit.uk 7 points 8 months ago

The light will eventually tire out and turn into radio waves or smth, I'm not a physicist

[-] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

To al elder God that sees higher bands of the electromagnetic spectrum it would see be a very bright place!

[-] yakko@feddit.uk 1 points 8 months ago

Any self respecting elder god would be playing billiards with the black holes. Fire up the new big bang, ye tatterdemalion layabouts!

[-] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

Is that because of the accretion disk?

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

And Hawking radiation. Hawking radiation is pretty "dark" for solar-mass scale black holes and up, but it can become relatively very intense for smaller holes.

For the holes we observe astronomically, the things we can see are the accretion disks and the orbits of stars around the black hole.

[-] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 8 months ago

But that happens because of matter falling into them, right? When they've already swallowed everything, there's not going to be accretion disks.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah, though eventually they should all evaporate one after another with a last huge tiny energy burst due to hawking radiation. But that will take a looooooooong ass time. And we still don't know (might never know) if hawking radiation is real.

[-] MotoAsh@piefed.social 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They said the same thing about the curvature of spacetime 100 years ago. Then it was proven like three years later.

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