Are Aliens Living On Planets Inside Black Holes?

Monday, April 11, 2011 - 12:30 in Astronomy & Space

Maybe that's why we can't seem to find them Aliens could conceivably live on planets illuminated by the swirling mass of photons orbiting the singularity of a special type of black hole, according to a new theory. Certain black holes are charged and rotate, and they possess a region past the event horizon - the point of no return - in which the fabric of spacetime appears normal again. This is called the inner Cauchy horizon. Related ArticlesTo Find Intelligent ETs, First Look for Signs of Mining in Distant Asteroid BeltsAre We Living Inside a Black Hole?At 6.6 Billion Suns, The Largest Black Hole Ever Measured Could Swallow Our Solar SystemTagsScience, Rebecca Boyle, aliens, astrophysics, black hole, black holes, event horizon, exoplanets, extraterrestrials, orbit, planets, singularityIf a charged, rotating black hole is big enough to weaken the tidal forces that exist beyond the event horizon, objects orbiting the singularity would neither...

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