There Are Some Holes in Einstein’s Theory About Black Holes

Amaze Lab

When so much of anything accretes into one small place in space, it may all eventually collapse in on itself creating cosmic enigmas we know as black holes. That should include light, but now new research seems to prove that wrong.

Transcript

00:00When so much of anything accretes into a small place in space, it may all eventually collapse

00:08in on itself, creating cosmic enigmas we know as black holes. According to an aged theory from this

00:14guy, the equation E equals mc squared outlines a relationship between mass and energy, such that

00:20enough of anything, even light, should be able to collect and turn into a black hole. However,

00:25now experts say that a black hole made from light might not actually be possible. One of these types

00:29of theoretical black holes is a tiny proton-sized one commonly called ball lightning. They were

00:34thought to be able to occur within the beams of high-powered lasers, but now new research posits

00:39that's just not the case. The appearance of ball lightning is prevented by what's called the

00:43Schwinger effect, or where matter can be created in that strong electrical field. With the researchers

00:48writing, our analysis strongly suggests that the formation of black holes solely from

00:52electromagnetic radiation is impossible, either by concentrating light in a hypothetical laboratory

00:57setting or in naturally occurring astrophysical phenomena. They say that their math proves that

01:02it's at least impossible on a scale from around the size of Jupiter, all the way down to one that

01:06is tinier than a proton. Still, they admit that in the strange conditions of the early universe,

01:11it may have once been possible.

Category

Transcript

Recommended