Answer by Andrew for Can I move a black hole with the aid of a lever?
As other answerers have pointed out, one way you could use a lever to move a black hole is to use the gravitational attraction of the lever. However, this does not really use the "lever-ness" of the...
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Yes you can move the black hole, as long your lever does not approach it too closely. Just use the attraction between the mass of the lever and the mass of the black hole. Thus you 'pull' the black...
View ArticleAnswer by foolishmuse for Can I move a black hole with the aid of a lever?
Archimedes is famous for saying "give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." The mass of a black hole is simply the mass of the body from which it was...
View ArticleAnswer by FlatterMann for Can I move a black hole with the aid of a lever?
Yes, of course you could. The end of the lever gets attracted by the black hole and the black hole gets attracted by the end of the lever. Hence the black hole moves. You simply never come too close...
View ArticleAnswer by Wippo for Can I move a black hole with the aid of a lever?
Preface: I'm not a physicist nor an astronomer so take my answer as a mere opinion.I don't think it's possible to move a black hole by pushing it, if that's what you mean. I can't think of any way you...
View ArticleCan I move a black hole with the aid of a lever?
Assuming I had an intergalactic lever and fulcrum that was long and strong enough to engage with a black hole, could I move the black hole? What would happen to the end of the lever as it approached...
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