{"id":135630,"date":"2024-09-16T11:25:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T11:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/16\/scientists-say-kugelblitz\/"},"modified":"2024-09-16T11:25:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T11:25:07","slug":"scientists-say-kugelblitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/16\/scientists-say-kugelblitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Say: Kugelblitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.snexplores.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/062124_ec_light-blackhole_feat-800x450.jpg?resize=800,450&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Scientists Say: Kugelblitz\" title=\"Scientists Say: Kugelblitz\" \/><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Kugelblitz<\/strong> (noun, \u201cKOO-ghull-blitz\u201d)<\/h2>\n<p>A kugelblitz is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/article\/scientists-say-black-hole\">black hole<\/a> made of pure light. Such objects are only theoretical. Some laws of physics suggest they should be able to exist. Others suggest that in real life, a kugelblitz could never actually form.<\/p>\n<p>A black hole packs a huge amount of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/article\/scientists-say-mass\">mass<\/a> into a very tiny space. As a result, its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/article\/scientists-say-gravity\">gravity<\/a> is so strong that not even light can escape. All known black holes are made of matter. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/article\/einstein-taught-us-its-all-relative\">Einstein\u2019s general theory of relativity<\/a> says that matter and energy are just two different forms of the same thing. (This is what is expressed in the famous equation E = mc<sup>2<\/sup>.) So in theory, a black hole could be made out of densely packed energy \u2014 light \u2014 rather than matter. This would be a kugelblitz, which is German for \u201cball lightning.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"wp-block-sciencenews-inline-related-post alignleft\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/article\/explainer-what-are-black-holes\">Explainer: What are black holes?<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/aside>\n<p>But new research suggests that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/black-hole-light-quantum-physics\" rel=\"noopener\">rules of quantum physics would keep kugelblitzes from forming<\/a>. According to quantum physics, when light gets too highly concentrated, something strange happens. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/article\/scientists-say-electron\">Electrons<\/a> and their antimatter partners (positrons) start to form. Those particles could then escape a region of densely packed light, taking energy with them. That would keep light from ever concentrating enough to form a black hole. Not even the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/article\/scientists-say-quasar\">superbright centers of active galaxies<\/a> could produce light intense enough to overcome this limit.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In a sentence<\/h2>\n<p>Kugelblitzes may only be theoretical \u2014 but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/article\/physics-nobel-prize-2020-black-hole-roger-penrose-reinhard-genzel-andrea-ghez\">black holes were predicted to exist decades before scientists actually found one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/article\/scientists-say-your-weekly-word\">Check out the full list of&nbsp;<em>Scientists Say<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.snexplores.org\/article\/scientists-say-kugelblitz-definition-pronunciation\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kugelblitz (noun, \u201cKOO-ghull-blitz\u201d) A kugelblitz is a black hole made of pure light. Such objects are only theoretical. Some laws of physics suggest they should be able to exist. Others suggest that in real life, a kugelblitz could never actually form. A black hole packs a huge amount of mass into a very tiny space. 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