Chapter 206: Touching...the Black Hole (2)
Chapter 206 – Touching...the Black Hole (2)
On one side, there was the Earth’s Pacific Ocean.
On the other side, there was the Solar System’s edge located several hundred astronomical units away.
One door connected these two spaces.
Chen Yu stood on one end of the Interstellar Portal and picked up the second rock. After pausing for a mont, he tossed the rock across the portal.
In just 20 seconds, the rock with a diater of more than 30 centiters disappeared into the terrifying darkness...
“The direction is still correct. The black hole is not far ahead.”
Removing his glove once more, Chen Yu glanced at his watch before saying, “The research institute just sent in the second calculation’s results. The gravitational acceleration the rock experienced is 2.2 ters per second, and we are within 150,000 kiloters of the black hole. The acceleration caused by my toss is also included.
“Well, then...”
Lowering his watch, Chen Yu looked at the cara and said, “Let’s continue advancing.
“Another 100,000 kiloters!”
As bullet comnts flooded the five livestream rooms, Chen Yu calibrated his destination to within 50,000 kiloters of the black hole.
After the prompt for a successful link sounded, he picked up a one-ter-diater rock and threw it into the darkness.
This ti, the rock “fell” exceptionally quickly! In just three seconds, it had disappeared from Chen Yu’s and the audience’s vision.
[Crap! It’s gone?!]
[Isn’t the acceleration a little too scary?]
[There’s nothing scary about it. It’s not a stellar-mass black hole. Its mass is only over 100 tis of the Earth.]
[Disaster is clearly imminent, yet I still can’t help but type lololol...]
[Ditto.]
[We can basically confirm the black hole’s existence now. If it was a planet, there’s no way we can’t see its surface now that the gravitational acceleration has reached such an extent.]
[Why doesn’t the black hole’s gravity suck the host through the portal?]
[Please rewatch the host’s first livestream.]
[I have 300,000 yuan in savings. UP, if you can’t save humanity, I’ll enjoy it with my family.]
[The world is going to be ssed up at that ti. Where are you going to spend it at? I bought plane tickets already, though.]
[I already sold my house.:)]
[You guys should calm down...]
...
Inside the aerospace institute, as the researchers got more and more data, their calculations got more accurate.
“The mass is 7.45625000E 26. The gravitational acceleration is 20.72 ters per second...”
“Forty-nine thousand kiloters!”
“Forty-nine thousand kiloters!”
“ too.”
After obtaining the data, the old director imdiately forwarded it, “Mr. King, you are only 49,000 kiloters away from the black hole.”
...
Inside the island-building ship, after Chen Yu received the old director’s ssage, he displayed his watch’s screen to the cara and said, “There are 49,000 kiloters remaining. The direction is still correct.
“We are already at a very close distance. The distance is approximately the circumference of Earth’s equator.
“In a vacuum, I can fly at a minimum of 1,000 ters per second in my protective suit, which is much greater than the escape velocity at this distance. So, it should be safe for to move a little farther forward.”
“We’ll advance another 20,000 kiloters!”
[...Farewell.]
[Farewell.]
[Farewell.]
[Farewell.]
Operating the portal, Chen Yu had it “advance” by another 20,000 kiloters.
When the spatial link was established, darkness still reigned within the tal arch. Without a reference, it looked as if the portal had not moved closer to the black hole at all.
Whoosh—
The fourth rock flew across the portal. In the blink of an eye, it vanished without a trace...
Shortly afterward, the aerospace research institute’s calculation results arrived once more.
“The rock’s acceleration is 59.16 ters per second, and we are 29,000 kiloters away from the black hole.”
After double-checking the distance, Chen Yu started manipulating the virtual projection while casually explaining, “We are less than 30,000 kiloters away. If Earth is so close to the black hole, the resulting tidal force will instantly tear the Earth apart. In the scale of the universe, we’re basically within arm’s reach of the black hole. Now, let’s continue advancing...
“Another 20,000 kiloters!”
When the fifth spatial link was successfully established, the portal’s warning indicator suddenly lit up in orange.
This light represented the first level of warning.
The spatial film was currently being tugged at by a strong gravitational force...
“The Interstellar Portal has three levels of warning: orange, red, and black. If the warning indicator lights up with a red color, it represents extre danger. If it turns black, the spatial link cannot be established. As we are only receiving an orange warning now, everyone doesn’t need to be nervous.”
After saying so, Chen Yu picked up the fifth rock and threw it into the darkness.
In an instant...
The rock disappeared.
The speed at which the rock was dragged toward the black hole far exceeded the upper limits of human dynamic vision.
Chen Yu subconsciously took a step back before looking at the cara and saying, “Can you calculate the rock’s flight speed? And how far am I from the black hole?”
Ten seconds later, a reply ca from the aerospace research institute. “I’m very sorry, Mr. King. The video your cara recorded doesn’t contain sufficient information. After slowing it down to a certain extent, the information becos too blurry. We cannot accurately calculate the rock’s acceleration. Can you bring a group of the institute’s experts and professional equipnt with you?”
After looking at the rely, Chen Yu hesitated for a while before nodding, “Okay, I’ll head over now.”
After saying so, Chen Yu pulled up the aerospace institute’s coordinates he previously saved and established a spatial link.
When the portal opened, the sight of 14 researchers standing in the middle of a plaza appeared. These researchers carried all sorts of tools, equipnt, and notebooks on them, their bodies shivering as they stood in the cold outdoors.
“Oh!”
“He’s here!”
“Hurry up and cross over. We can’t let the lithium batteries freeze.”
“Bring the stand! Hurry!”
The fourteen researchers quickly sward through the portal. Without even greeting Chen Yu, they imdiately started setting up an ultra-high fra rate cara and all sorts of computing devices.
Everyone’s faces were flushed with excitent.
Would the Earth be destroyed?
Would humanity go extinct?
Did the universe exist?
In their eyes, none of these things mattered!
A black hole!
This was a black hole they were talking about!
It was even a primordial black hole that could be observed up close!
Just acquiring the black hole’s gravitational acceleration data at different distances would already create a revolutionary breakthrough in the physics world...
After the researchers were done setting up their equipnt, the person in charge approached Chen Yu while carrying a rock that had been accurately weighed and asured. The person in charge then suppressed his excitent before saying, “M-Mr. King, we’re ready.”
“Okay.”
Chen Yu didn’t say much and simply accepted the rock. He then approached the portal and adjusted the portal’s spatial coordinates. Once that was done, he threw the rock through the portal under the floating cara’s and high fra rate cara’s focus.
Whoosh—
Darkness instantly enveloped the rock. It didn’t even leave behind a trail of light as it disappeared...
Beep!
A buzz ca from the ultra-high fra rate cara. Imdiately, the researchers exported the video data, and nervously conducted their calculations.
“The gravitational acceleration is 593.65 ters per second, a=GM/r^2...6.6726 tis 10 minus one-tenth of M-m^2/kg^2...
“M=5.965 multiplied by 10 to the power of 24 multiplied by 125...
“I got the result!”
A middle-aged researcher abruptly jumped up excitedly and yelled, “The black hole’s distance is 9,154,730 ters! It’s accurate!”
“I also derived the black hole’s mass,” another researcher said. “7.45625331E 26!”
“I also got the escape velocity. At a distance of 9,154,730 ters, the escape velocity is 104,255.92 ters per second.”
“A hundred thousand ters per second?!” Chen Yu was stunned. “Doesn’t that an I can’t escape once I go in?”
Hearing this, the researchers beca montarily stunned as well, though for a different reason. A mont later, a female researcher hurriedly stepped forward and explained, “Mr. King, that isn’t the case. You have misunderstood the escape velocity’s aning. The escape velocity is the minimum speed needed for a free, non-propelled object to escape from a massive body’s gravitational influence. In other words, if you’re moving at this speed, you can swing out of the black hole’s gravitational field even without thrust! If you have continuous thrust, you can fly out of the gravitational field even if you are far from reaching the escape velocity. It is sufficient so long as your flight speed is greater than the falling speed.”
“I see.” Realization dawned upon Chen Yu. He then asked, “That ans I can continue advancing, right?”
“Yes, yes, yes!” x14
The researchers nodded like little chicks pecking at rice, and they stared at Chen Yu with glowing eyes.
“That...” Chen Yu vaguely felt that sothing was amiss. “If we continue moving forward, how many kiloters will be appropriate?”
“Go forward by another 5,000 kiloters!”
“I-Isn’t that a little too much?”
“No.” A middle-aged researcher stepped forward and patted his chest, saying, “Please trust us!”
Chen Yu: “...”
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