Филозофија виђења невидљивог: Црне рупе

Abstract

The avant-garde science is seeing what could not be seen and imagining the unimaginable. The Event Horizon Collaboration (EHC) achieved the first image of a shadow of the supermassive black hole, a century after black hole’s theoretical foundation by Einstein and Schwarzschild. Understanding the extravagant details of this renowned EHC observation has inspired us to think about black holes in a new way, as touchstones for physics and philosophy. Black holes are the most compact and extreme objects known in the Universe. They seem to be crucial in the Universe, powering a wide variety of violent events, from X-ray binaries to active galactic nuclei. Physical processes in the vicinity of black holes arise in a regime of the extremely intense gravitational field. Under such conditions, our portrayal of physical laws, space and time reaches its limits in these objects. In such a situation, philosophical issues naturally arise. Here we will discuss some key role black holes have in the Universe and some philosophical questions on space and time that arise from their research, with reference to scientific arguments that support the eternalism.