black holes

Recently I have been doing some reading about the creation of artificial black holes by Leonhardt and Piwnick through condensates and teh proposed idea through the LHC. Anybody recommend some good reading material about black holes in general and the possibility of creating them in a lab.

I was watching a show on NOVA the other day about giant black holes being in the center all galaxies and it got me thinking. Wouldn’t the existence of a black hole violate the laws of thermodynamics? The thought crossed my mind that a black hole could be used to create energy. Since a black...

Theory: Nothing can escape from a black hole 'cause the gravity is so strong the escape velocity is higher than the speed of light. Not even massless particles like photons can escape. And I'm ignoring zero point vacuum energy particle pairs at the event horizon. So, IF gravity is...

Bless those Canuck bookstores; they carry everything. But in this case, they carry something that I think I disagree with, and I hope some of the physics brains can help me out here. From Pratchett, Steward, and Cohen's The Science of Discworld III : Darwin's Watch (and a great series it is...

If a Big star is orbiting a smaller star and the smaller starts to expand and then starts to collapse and eventually forms a Black hole with the Bigger Star still orbiting it. The two stars could have been a binary star system. And after the star collapses the other star still orbits what's...

Black holes are not only theoretical but greatly enigmatic objects. Can somebody explain this to me? What I don’t understand is why a black hole tears a hole in time space????? Why does a hole have to torn in TIME SPACE for a black hole to be created? Why can’t a black hole be simply be an...