Are black holes real?

Can you even prove they exist?

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Actually one of my great-grandparents was a scientist on one of the black hole research operations, either Blunt Spork or Boogey Penguin. I think it was Boogey Penguin. Yeah, she was into the real deal, back in the day. Remember the whole black hole crisis in China a while back? She was actually working in Beijing with the Chinese specialists for a while trying to fight them off. Back then they didn't know how radioactive black holes were, though, so none of their equipment was protected, and she died like a decade after coming back. :c Really sad story. But at least her last few years were with her family.

And hey, with what they discovered about black holes from that project, we were fully prepared for those dozens of mass black hole outbreaks in the 70s! I actually saw one out in the backyard the other day :P Almost feel sorry for the little things. Nowhere to go in the modern world.

I wonder what it would be like to be a black hole in a younger, more primitive time? With the whole Wild West at your fingertips, and no Al Gore vying to hunt you down and serve you to senators at the White House correspondents' dinner? Sheesh, it's a different planet nowadays. Different planet. Almost makes you wonder, who are the real black holes? Not us, not us.

No but then again I can't prove anything other than that I perceive a world around me. But then again I'm pretty sure science has given a decent amount of proof that there is some sort of black hole like phenomenon out in the universe.

Lol, memories. It was this or wut iz antimatter.

An edgier more bad ass version of matter?

It is like regular matter, but opposite.

So definitely more bad ass.

Speaking of antimatter, one my friends at school said annihilation occurring when matter and antimatter meet makes no sense, apparently.

And ya, I remember the entire ECF gang working to make that thread the most viewed science thread of all time on the sporum. Nostalgic as hell.

Lol was so funny.

They annihilate because they have opposite charges. Like, everything about their core fundamental reality is opposite to regular matter, so they not only attract each other like magnets, but explode when they hit. Why EXACTLY exactly, I honestly do not know, I would have to research it a ton. I just know roughly 99% of it is turned into usable energy, and the other 1% is turned into neutrino's, which are unusable. My percentages are not spot on but just a rough idea. But it makes matter-antimatter reactions the most energy efficient reactions in the universe. Entropy and all that.

I was surprised when I learned scientists discovered lightning bolts produce antimatter. We just haven't noticed it for so long because any antimatter it makes instantly annihilates itself.