黑洞中可能存在超越人類的文明
Despite being considered the most destructive force in space and absolutely uninhabitable, the conditions for life eXist Inside supermassive black holes, a Russian cosmologist has theorised. Vyacheslav Dokuchaev has even suggested that if life did exist inside the SBH, it would have evolved to become the most advanced civilisation in the galaxy.
儘管超大質量黑洞被認爲最具破壞力並且絕對無法居住，然而俄羅斯的一名宇宙學家理論上認爲，黑洞中有生命存在的條件。Vyacheslav Dokuchaev甚至曾暗示說，如果黑洞中真的有生命存在，他們已經進化成銀河中最先進的文明。
Supermassive black holes are such powerful gravitational forces that they suck in everything around them, including light, and nothing that crosses the black hole's 'event horizon（at the lip of the black hole）' is ever seen again.
超大質量黑洞引力非常強大，會將它周圍的一切都吸進去，任何穿過黑洞視界（即黑洞的邊緣）的東西都將永無再現之日，包括光。
But now Dokuchaev, of Moscow's Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, says existing evidence combined with new research throws up intriguing possibilities for certain types of black holes.
但是現在，莫斯科核研究所俄羅斯科學院的Dokuchaev說，現有證據結合最新的研究引出了對特定類型黑洞來說非常有趣的可能性。
Inside a charged, rotating black hole there are regions where photons can survive in stable periodic orbits. Dokuchaev specialises in studying those orbits and their dynamics.
帶電荷的、旋轉的黑洞中，光子能夠在一些區域內倖存，並且進行穩定的、週期性軌道運行。
He speculates, in a paper published in Cornell University's online journal arXiv, that if there are stable orbits for photons, there is no reason why there could not be stable orbits for larger objects, such as planets.
Dokuchaev在發表在美國康奈爾大學網絡期刊arXiv的一篇論文中推測說，如果光子在黑洞中有穩定軌道，比如行星等大的物體在黑洞中沒有穩定軌道是非常沒有理由的。
The problem is that these stable orbits would only exist once you have crossed the threshold of the event horizon, where time and space flow into one another.
問題是，只有曾穿過黑洞視界的臨界纔會存在穩定軌道，那裏時間與空間會流入其他地方。
However, beyond the event horizon is another domain, known as the Cauchy horizon, where time and space return to stable states. It is inside the Cauchy horizon that life could exist, Dokuchaev argues in the paper published in arXiv, and the type of life that could exist in those conditions - where they would be subject to massive fluctuating tidal forces - would have evolved beyond ours.
然而，黑洞視界的另一邊是一片被稱作柯西視界的領域，那裏的時空會恢復到穩定狀態。Dokuchaev在發表在arXiv的論文中主張，柯西視界中有生命存在的可能, 而且在那種條件下存活的生命很可能進化的比人類還好，他們可能受支配與巨大的、波動的潮汐力。
Though that is a spine-tingling thought, Dokuchaev's proposition can only ever remain theoretical. Because nothing can ever escape from a black hole due to its enormous gravitational pull, we will never know if it is true.
雖然這是一個令人興奮的想法，可是Dokuchaev的這項議題很可能永遠只停留在理論層面。因爲任何事物都無法逃離黑洞的巨大引力，我們永遠也無法知道Dokuchaev的議題是不是真的。
