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What would happen if you sent a chain of nukes into the middle of a black hole and exploded them in a manner of frequency?

Do you think it'd cause some pretty cool waves?

Think we could slap them together and get her to spit out some mass like an atom ejecting a photon?

It doesn't matter how many nukes we slap together, they still won't be able to eject anything faster than the speed of light. A Black Hole in General Relativity is not a simple Dark Star in Newtonian Mechanics, at the Event Horizon space is so warped that nothing moving with less speed than light is able to pass from the inside and out.

 

If the nukes manages to explode behind the Event Horizon there might be "some pretty cool" effects on the inside, but the only thing we would notice on the outside is how the Black Hole silently grows slightly while consuming the added mass/energy from the nukes when they go through the Event Horizon.

 

Typically an active Black Hole is feeding from a large Accretion Disc where energy is produced from a large amount of mass with an efficiency much much greater than in nuclear fusion, so even if the Nukes blows up somewhere outside of the Event Horizon they would likely still be to faint to be noticed.

If you want something more awesome, explode your nuke just outside the event horizon, where you can still see it. A large part of your nuclear explosion will travel around the black hole, and the whole thing will be greatly red-shifted.

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I was thinking more along the lines of a black hole large enough to posses an inner event horizon wherre gas and energy comes spewing out in the middle.

slide'm in on vectors intersecting the gas escape and gravity pullation LOL.

I wander if it'd be wise to shock such a large area of quantum space, if that's what it is.

Mass squeezed down into the quantum state from wence it came :)

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