Originally Posted by
ebaines
As for black holes being deadly - thinking of black holes as they exist in space (left overs from super novae) - venturing too close to a black hole would indeed kill you, science fiction stories notwithstanding.
Hello again, ebaines:
Well, you're certainly more educated than I am...
Of course, should we get close to a black hole, it would kill us. But, we're NOT going to get close to a black hole, so the only thing the black hole devours are inanimate objects... Yes, it "kills" them...
But... It used to be that all matter that went into a black hole disappears forever. Now, it seems that some black holes DO give off some material.
It would seem to me, that this is recycling of stuff, even if it isn't the parts that we're made up of.
I'm happy to be proven wrong, though. I LOVE this stuff. The only thing that pisses me off about dying, is that I'm going to miss the next big discovery...
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