Anti-nuclear bomb?

[Angrboda]

Not to mention the obvious that the sum total of energy doesn't decrease, so you still have to contend with the energy from both black hole and atom bomb, regardless.

[The Architect Of Fate]

Oh yeah opening a black hole stellar idea 

[Anomalocaris]

[Ferrocyanide]

WinterHold seems to be proposing to stop a nuclear explosion by blowing up a "black hole bomb".

The problem is that you need to launch your black hole bomb, make it reach the atomic bomb in time, and time it so that your bomb and their bomb blows up exactly at the same time.
That's not going to work.
Even if you get the timing right, there would be an uneven explosion.

When your enemy using a standard missile, you can launch a counter missile that will get nearby and then your missile detonates itself, which also destroys their missile. The only accuracy required is to get your missile close to their's. It doesn't matter how high in the atmosphere the explosion happens. As long as your missile gets close enough, it is good enough.
I don't know but perhaps using a standard bomb to stop your enemies nuclear bomb would be best. Just make sure that you stop them way before they come near your land since the atomic bomb still might create a large explosion or maybe there would be a weaker atomic explosion.

Like I said, the other issue is that you end up with an uneven explosion with your idea. There would still be a tremendous amount of energy output from the atomic bomb. Your black hole bomb will also give a large amount of energy output (in the form of a vacuum).

[LadyForCamus]

[Paleophyte]

[The Grand Nudger]

Just so I'm clear.


If the us could create and deploy a pocket black hole as a weapon.....that...to you...seems like an anti-weapon? In some way that a nuke isn't an anti weapon for naval guns or bombs? For some odd reason, I hope that the first weaponized black hole is called winterhold. It would actually fit. It's strange to me that I sit here, as a former american soldier, wishing for the day that no one so much as throws a rock at anyone else. Meanwhile, you're over here hoping that some extremist gets ahold of a goddamned black hole.

Fully beyond the pale - your entire worldview is unwell.

[Ferrocyanide]

 - Black holes are not your friend. They are top contenders for the most destructive phenomena ever discovered. The small ones "evaporate" with a detonation that outstrips any bomb that humans have ever conceived of. The mid-sized ones simply swallow the entire planet. The really big ones devour the solar system in one gulp. Do I need to explain why this would be a bad idea?

 - Throwing a nuke into a black hole, or a black hole at a nuke, is one of the more absurd ways of actually making a nuclear bomb worse. Nuclear weapons are relatively inefficient at converting mass to energy, managing only a percent or two at the best of times. By contrast, a black hole can liberate more than 50% of the energy equivalent of any infalling mass. This is how astronomers can study black holes in other galaxies by looking at the gamma radiation that they emit. So your "solution" makes an explosion an order of magnitude larger than the nuke itself would have. And that's just the nuke. Once your black hole started pulling in atmosphere, ocean, and bedrock you'd have real trouble. It would effectively turn any nearby mass into a nuclear explosion.

TL;DR We can't do this and that's a very good thing.

Yes, when particle/atoms fall into a black hole, there is a full spectrum, from radio wave to gamma-ray, emission.
Another way is to observe background stars to see if the light is deflected.
Another way is to see the gravitational effecting the pathway of other moving objects, sort of how it was done to detect Pluto and Neptune.
Another way that I think has not been done yet is gravitational lensing.