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Sparxmith34 karma

Thank you for giving us your time.

I have a question about black holes that has bugged me for years: Is there anything that a black hole can consume that will undo its event horizon?

More explicitly, given a black hole of an arbitrary size, is it possible to "inject" enough energy and/or matter to cause the resulting explosion to breach the black hole's event horizon? An example that's likely impossible: as two galaxies collide, a black hole and super massive star are on a direct collision course at a significant percentage of c. The star that is so massive that it's going to supernova even with the effects of the black hole syphoning off some of its mass. After the star passes the event horizon, it goes nova. Would that be sufficient energy?

Or more simply, is there a way to utilize either or both of the electroweak & strong nuclear forces to overcome the gravity well of a presumed singularity?

Sparxmith10 karma

Interesting. I almost said, "apart from Hawking Radiation" as part of my question, but for a different reason. So, I didn't get the answer I was expecting but learned something anyways.

Thank you again!