Grrl Power #1432 – Dead leg
Sure, an actual Black Hole can probably absorb a lot of energy before it destabilizes. In fact, as far as I know, they can absorb an unlimited amount of energy. I allow for some wiggle room there because maybe if 6,000 pulsars were somehow aimed at a black hole, (you know, the energy jets that come off of pulsars that emit 100,000 times the energy of our sun,) so if that much energy hit one all at once, maybe that could fuck it up. Probably not, but two black holes nearly hitting each other has to have an effect. Maybe a huge black hole can rip a little one to bits and invert its event horizon? I don’t know.
But the pixie’s singularity spell isn’t a true black hole. It’s limited by the magic used to create it, and it was actually designed to suck up a lot of shit, hold it for a few seconds, then barf it all back out once the pixie had relocated either it or herself. Maxima figured if that was the case, then disrupting the containment might light it off early. And she didn’t even have to use her own energy beam.
Here is Gaxgy’s painting Maxima promised him. Weird how he draws almost exactly like me.
I did try and do an oil painting version of this, by actually re-painting over the whole thing with brush-strokey brushes, but what I figured out is that most brushy oil paintings are kind of low detail. Sure, a skilled painter like Bob Ross or whoever can dab a brush down a canvas and make a great looking tree or a shed with shingles, but in trying to preserve the detail of my picture (eyelashes, reflections, etc) was that I had to keep making the brush smaller and smaller, and the end result was that honestly, it didn’t really look all that oil-painted. I’ll post that version over at Patreon, just for fun, but I kind of quit on it after getting mostly done with re-painting Max.
Patreon has a no-dragon-bikini version of of the picture as well, naturally.
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.
Two black holes colliding make… one black hole.
Black hole + *anything* else = bigger black hole.
The only hypothetical exception would be negative-mass matter, which we are pretty certain does not exist. It would be *stuff* that some how literally weighs less than nothing, and would behave in very odd ways.
Black holes emit radiation, and the smaller they are, the faster that radiation emission is. If the fairy can produce a BH that is just small enough to go under critical mass when it hits the target, that would be a massive explosion without resulting in a larger black hole.
A black hole that unstable would be immensely small, and it wouldn’t suck up basically anything. A black hole with a lifetime of 10 seconds would weigh “only” about a 100 tons and a Schwarzchils radius (event horizon) much, much smaller than an atom (~10^-22 meters). You can have a perfect bomb, or you can have something that sucks matter and exerts gravity, but you can’t have both.
Right. I was going for the bomb.
Well, the process of the two black holes merging creates gravity waves, so Dave was right that it has an effect.
Negative mass is a weird concept. Would it move AWAY from gravity wells?
Not according to Stephen Hawking.
His theory has it that you get two particles constantly being created and neutralised, one with positive mass one with negative.
When near a Black Hole they the positive mass one can escape, creating Hawking Radiation, because the negative mass one is sucked into the Black Hole and slowly eroding/evaporating it.
Eventually enough negative mass is absorbed to end the Black Hole, and then I’m not sure anyone knows what will happen.
So that’s the mostly-wrong explanation that’s easy to understand (and it’s virtual particle/antiparticle pairs, which essentially borrow energy from the vacuum in order to “exist”, and one falls into the black hole and pays back the energy debt by allowing its partner to become a real particle, or something, which reduces the total energy in the black hole; although virtual particles are widely regarded as little more than a mathematical trick that only works because we physically can’t know what’s going on at sufficiently small time, mass, and distance scales). The real explanation (which I do not really understand) involves the event horizon limiting the range of possible wave forms that can exist in the neighborhood of a black hole, kind of like the Casimir effect, which results in photons being generated near it as a form of thermal black-body radiation, and the wavelength of the photons is proportional to the radius of the black hole (thus smaller black holes generate shorter-wavelength, higher-energy photons and radiate heat faster).
They may exist the same way that virtual particles exist. As in, created with their unique anti-particle and existing on a planck-time scale.
And while scientists are rather certain that negative mass does not exist in our universe (the part that we can see of it), as it would produce quite distinct effects. That is not the same as stating with confidence that it cannot exist. Mass after all is caused by the interaction of certain particles with the higgs-field, created by the higgs-boson. We know that our fundamental model is yet incomplete so it cannot be ruled out that the higgs boson has its own anti-particle, which would produce an inverted higgs-field.
It is not at all likely, but it cannot entirely be ruled out either.
Black holes of less mass than a good sized asteroid aren’t stable. The smaller they are, the more Hawking radiation they emit until they convert entirely into (end result) gamma rays. Really really quickly. Like nuclear explosion quickly.
It’s possible, in theory, to create energy based black holes with high power lasers and parabolic reflectors, and inject atoms, then turn off the lasers and get 100% matter to energy output. Which is totally theory at this point.
Well, yes, that is true according to the currently most accepted models of black holes, but it is worth mentioning that there is no observational evidence that hawking radiation actually exists. It seems likely that hawking does exist, but until we have observational evidence (or direct experimental evidence) it remains a prediction.
Hawking certainly existed ;)
He also is the only evidence necessary for why we need a NHS.
Had he been born in almost any other country he would not have lived even to the age the doctors initially gave him and we would not have the privilege of learning from one of the most brilliant and consequential scientists ever.
Haking existed, but did he radiate? (Likewise ;))
Anybody else thinking Maxima is having far too much fun?
Maxima does not have too much fun.
Not does she have too little.
She has exactly as much fun as she means to,
:raises_hand:
Maxi hasn’t had a good workout since she drank that geode-juice
Like Soupcan when he got to fight Darkseid: no more concern about tissue paper (except what will be needed to wipe up what is left)
She can probably count on the fingers of one hand the times she’s been allowed to go “all out no-stop”without worrying about collateral damage before this.
Two black holes colliding results in one single black hole, and also a nice gravitational wave as a result. There were experiments set to detect just that, and they did. Ever since 2015, LIGO (US), VIRGO (EU), and KAGRA (Japan) have detected a black hole collision every three days on average. These detectors have confirmed predictions about black holes made by Einstein and Hawking.
If you throw too much stuff into a black hole the stuff right around the event horizon starts generating so much radiation it blows away everything around it. This is the Eddington limit. This does not actually do anything at all to the black hole, it only limits the rate at which it can grow.
Came for the comic, stayed for the physics
Well there you go. Krav maga becomes exponentially effective against bigger targets.
Hehe entire hole Sucked.
Great effects here *Cheering.
Thank you Dave B., for getting back to the action, I know you find it challenging to draw.
And I believe everyone else appreciates it too.
This tournament arc just begs for super-power scenes!
Alternate title for this strip: “Onomatopoeia-palooza”
When I was a kid, giving someone a flat tire meant stepping on the back of their shoe so their shoe would come off. Not kicking someone in the knee and ripping their leg off. Dave must have gone to a much rougher elementary school.
Or you went to a softer one.
i knew it was not a blackhole!
A blackhole that size, exploding, would obliterate the moon! not make a small nuclear explosion!
HA!
Did ya hear about the black hole that exploded?
Not the start of a joke, it was on the news recently
Tinman: “And that was my good leg!”
That wasn’t a real black hole or there wouldn’t have been anyone left in the battlefield. Her magic created a simulation of one and all that beams’ energy over-loaded it. It’s like when someone jams a water bottle over a faucet and turns the water on, sooner or later the bottle explodes. It’s not much different from “suck-hole’s” version, only way more powerful. I think Max would be the only one that might resist a real black hole, but that’s a big maybe.
So it was in fact the artificial singularity like a Romulan Warbird engine core. If Sydney wasn’t so… distracted at the moment, she’d probably have figured that out.
Maxima, being a closet NEEEEEERRRD, is probably thinking that in her internal monologue though.
Ah the classic bullying until they lose a limb. Waiting for the galactic wedgie that splits someone in 2 next.