Why isn't it possible to see a naked gravitational singularity?

[Obnoxious]

Couldn't we just shoot a large amount of electrons into a blackhole until the electron's disgust and repulsion with one another becomes so strong, it overcomes the massive amount of gravity present? Thus allowing the casual observer to fire another electron in there and have it bounce back with whatever info it may contain. The whole thing would just be mildly inconvient though.

[DQW]

Sounds like the kind of strategery that the dude in your picture would come up with.

[mezarashi]

Couldn't we just shoot a large amount of electrons into a blackhole until the electron's disgust and repulsion with one another becomes so strong, it overcomes the massive amount of gravity present? Thus allowing the casual observer to fire another electron in there and have it bounce back with whatever info it may contain. The whole thing would just be mildly inconvient though.

 

Well you see, nearly to say, by definition, a blackhole is an entity in which nothing can escape from. We don't know what happens behind the event horizon and whether our known laws of physics apply. Quantum sizes + relativistic masses = a headache.

 

Secondly, the blackhole doesn't really care about the mechanism in which you are trying to accelerate matter from it. Whether you want to pull it using electromagnetics or use a rocket. The whole point is that even IF you could accelerate a particle below the event horizon to the speed of light, it would not have enough energy to escape. And obviously nothing can go faster than the speed of light. Thus any attempt is futile.

[Mobius]

Although I put up on the other post that the evidence for naked singularities is slim. It is theoretically possible. As a naked singularity by definition is not "hidden" in a black hole, if one did exist it COULD be observed.

[[Tycho?]]

A more interesting test would be to throw positrons or other anti-matter particles into a black hole. Would they annihillate any matter in the black hole, since a singularity doesn't have electrons? I guess it wouldn't matter even if it did, its not like the energy produced is going to go anywhere.