Comment on Scientists confirm that the first black hole ever imaged is actually spinning
DemBoSain@midwest.social 1 year ago
I guess the next questions would be
- How fast? Really fast? Does this question even make sense?
- What does this say about the inside of the event horizon? Does it say anything? Is this black hole leaking real information?
- Is black hole spin quantized like quantum spin? Is it spin-up or spin-down?
anlumo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Quantum Physics “spin” has nothing to do with actual spinning. It’s just a weirdly named property of particles.
grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve always thought that they should have just named the properties something like P1, P2, etc. So there’s no connotation.
Abnorc@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Spin is a form of angular momentum, so there is a reason for the name. It’d be a pain in the butt to learn if properties didn’t have catchy names too.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 11 months ago
I thought “spinning” was meant rather literally in this case and not in some quantum sense
anlumo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
For black holes, it does refer to actual spinning. Particles are the ones not really spinning.