1. A space monkey is happily orbiting a Schwarzschild black hole in a circular g
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1. A space monkey is happily orbiting a Schwarzschild black hole in a circular geodesic orbit. An evil baboon, far from the black hole. tries to send the monkey to its death inside the black hole by dropping a carefully timed coconut radially toward the black hole, knowing that the monkey can't resist catching the falling coconut. Given the monkey's mass and initial orbital radius and the mass of the coconut, explain how you would go about solving the problem (but do not do the calculation). What are the possible fates for our intrepid space monkey?Explanation / Answer
A space monkey is happily orbiting a Schwarzschild black hole in a circular geodesic orbit An evil baboon far from the black hole send the monkey to its death inside the black hole by dropping a carefully timed coconut radially toward the black hole, knowing that the monkey can't resist catching the falling coconut Given the monkey mass and initial orbital radius and the mass of the coconut.
Reason for Possible Fate for intrepid monkey:
As matter falls into black hole, it tends to settle into rotating accretion disk and both energy and angular momentum are gradually fed into the hole. As a result the black hole which we expect to see in astrophysical situations should be spinning and indeed the observations are consistent with very high spin rates for observed black holes. This focuses on spherically symmetric Schwarzschild solution. Thhus an evil baboon which is far from the black hole tries to send the monkey to its death inside the black hole.
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