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The term "black hole" was used in print by Life and Science News magazines in 1963, [61] and by science journalist Ann Ewing in her article " 'Black Holes' in Space", dated 18 January 1964, which was a report on a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science held in Cleveland, Ohio. [62] [63]
[2] [3] [5] [10] [13] Artificial black holes that are created unintentionally at nuclear facilities appear in Michael McCollum's 1979 short story "Scoop" and Martin Caidin's 1980 novel Star Bright. [2] [3] In David Langford's 1982 novel The Space Eater, a small black hole is used as a weapon against a rebellious planet.
Black holes seem to have a sweet spot in terms of size, power and lifespan which is almost ideal. A black hole weighing 606,000 metric tons (6.06 × 10 8 kg) would have a Schwarzschild radius of 0.9 attometers (0.9 × 10 –18 m, or 9 × 10 –19 m), a power output of 160 petawatts (160 × 10 15 W, or 1.6 × 10 17 W), and a 3.5-year lifespan ...
A black hole is thought to form when a large star exhausts the nuclear fuel at its core and collapses inward due to its own gravitational pull, triggering an immense explosion that blows off its ...
Forward explains that he found the Tunguska meteorite, which was actually a small black hole. Returning it to the station he fed it the sphere of neutronium he was previously using for his communications attempt, thereby increasing its mass, and then fed in the exhaust of an ion engine to give it a permanent electric charge.
Halloween is a time to be haunted by ghosts, goblins, and ghouls, but nothing in the universe is scarier than a black hole. Black holes – regions in space where gravity is so strong that nothing ...
The episode presented an in-depth treatment of black holes, beginning with John Michell's suggestion of the existence of an "invisible star" to the first discovery of a black hole, Cygnus X-1. [2] The episode's title is an allusion to how light from stars and other cosmic objects takes eons to travel to Earth, giving rise to the possibility ...
Alderson jumps work by jumping to the closest star. If an undetected black hole were between two stars, a ship would arrive near the black hole instead. The missing ships could have been trapped by the black hole's gravity. The Daniel Webster, with Ward aboard, travels to the black hole and finds several of the missing ships. Many of the crews ...