Kanto Celebration Event takes place from February 21 – 27 2021, as a follow-up celebration to the Pokémon GO Tour: Kanto Event. During the event, Trainers will be able to raid Kanto region legendary Pokémon and obtain Gen 1 Pokémon that know exclusive attacks from previous Community Day events.
You will be able to collect different Kanto region Pokémon from wild encounters, Incense and Eggs. Do note that shiny forms of all Kanto Pokémon will become available once Kanto Tour begins on the same day – February 21st.
Date and Time
Starts on Sunday, February 21, 2021, at 10:00 a.m. local time
Ends on Saturday, February 27, 2021, at 8:00 p.m. local time
Wild spawns
The following Pokémon will be appearing more frequently in the wild during the Kanto Celebration event:
Incense encounters
The following Pokémon will be attracted to Incense during the event:
Eggs
The following Pokémon will be hatching from 5 km Eggs:
Field Research
Event-exclusive Field Research features tasks that reward Stardust and lead to encounters with Pokémon such as:
Raids
The following Pokémon will be appearing in raids:
Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, Pikachu, Magikarp, and Dratini will be appearing in one-star raids.
Scyther, Pinsir, Machoke, Kadabra, Haunter, Graveler, and Lapras will be appearing in three-star raids.
Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, and Mewtwo will be appearing in five-star raids.
Exclusive moves
Get Pokémon that know exclusive attacks from previous Community Day events! If you evolve the following Pokémon during the event, their Evolution will know an exclusive attack.
Evolve Ivysaur (the evolved form of Bulbasaur) to get a Venusaur that knows Frenzy Plant.
Evolve Charmeleon (the evolved form of Charmander) to get a Charizard that knows Blast Burn.
Evolve Wartortle (the evolved form of Squirtle) to get a Blastoise that knows Hydro Cannon.
Evolve Pichu to get a Pikachu that knows Surf.
Evolve Eevee into any of its Evolutions to get an evolved form that knows Last Resort.
Evolve Dragonair (the evolved form of Dratini) to get a Dragonite that knows Draco Meteor.
Collection challenges
Some of the Collection Challenges from Pokémon GO Tour: Kanto will continue throughout the Kanto Celebration event. Head on over to the Today View to track your progress.
To solve the mysteries of black holes, a human should just venture into one.
However, there is a rather complicated catch: A human can do this only if the respective black hole is supermassive and isolated, and if the person entering the black hole does not expect to report the findings to anyone in the entire Universe.
We are both physicists who study black holes, albeit from a very safe distance. Black holes are among the most abundant astrophysical objects in our Universe.
These intriguing objects appear to be an essential ingredient in the evolution of the Universe, from the Big Bang till present day. They probably had an impact on the formation of human life in our own galaxy.
A person falling into a black hole and being stretched. (Leo Rodriguez/Shanshan Rodriguez/CC BY-ND)
Two types of black holes
The Universe is littered with a vast zoo of different types of black holes.
They can vary by size and be electrically charged, the same way electrons or protons are in atoms. Some black holes actually spin. There are two types of black holes that are relevant to our discussion.
The first does not rotate, is electrically neutral – that is, not positively or negatively charged – and has the mass of our Sun. The second type is a supermassive black hole, with a mass of millions to even billions times greater than that of our Sun.
Besides the mass difference between these two types of black holes, what also differentiates them is the distance from their center to their “event horizon” – a measure called radial distance.
A person falling into a supermassive black hole would likely survive. (Leo & Shanshan Rodriguez/CC BY-ND)
The event horizon of a black hole is the point of no return. Anything that passes this point will be swallowed by the black hole and forever vanish from our known Universe.
At the event horizon, the black hole’s gravity is so powerful that no amount of mechanical force can overcome or counteract it. Even light, the fastest-moving thing in our Universe, cannot escape – hence the term “black hole”.
The radial size of the event horizon depends on the mass of the respective black hole and is key for a person to survive falling into one. For a black hole with a mass of our Sun (one solar mass), the event horizon will have a radius of just under 2 miles (3.2 kilometres).
A person approaching the event horizon of a a Sun-size black hole. (Leo and Shanshan Rodriguez/CC BY-ND)
The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, by contrast, has a mass of roughly 4 million solar masses, and it has an event horizon with a radius of 7.3 million miles or 17 solar radii.
Thus, someone falling into a stellar-size black hole will get much, much closer to the black hole’s center before passing the event horizon, as opposed to falling into a supermassive black hole.
This implies, due to the closeness of the black hole’s center, that the black hole’s pull on a person will differ by a factor of 1,000 billion times between head and toe, depending on which is leading the free fall.
In other words, if the person is falling feet first, as they approach the event horizon of a stellar mass black hole, the gravitational pull on their feet will be exponentially larger compared to the black hole’s tug on their head.
The person would experience spaghettification, and most likely not survive being stretched into a long, thin noodle-like shape.
Now, a person falling into a supermassive black hole would reach the event horizon much farther from the the central source of gravitational pull, which means that the difference in gravitational pull between head and toe is nearly zero.
Thus, the person would pass through the event horizon unaffected, not be stretched into a long, thin noodle, survive and float painlessly past the black hole’s horizon.
Other considerations
Most black holes that we observe in the Universe are surrounded by very hot disks of material, mostly comprising gas and dust or other objects like stars and planets that got too close to the horizon and fell into the black hole.
These disks are called accretion disks and are very hot and turbulent. They are most certainly not hospitable and would make traveling into the black hole extremely dangerous.
To enter one safely, you would need to find a supermassive black hole that is completely isolated and not feeding on surrounding material, gas, or even stars.
Now, if a person found an isolated supermassive black hole suitable for scientific study and decided to venture in, everything observed or measured of the black hole interior would be confined within the black hole’s event horizon.
Keeping in mind that nothing can escape the gravitational pull beyond the event horizon, the in-falling person would not be able to send any information about their findings back out beyond this horizon. Their journey and findings would be lost to the rest of the entire Universe for all time. But they would enjoy the adventure, for as long as they survived … maybe ….
Leo Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of Physics, Grinnell College and Shanshan Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of Physics, Grinnell College.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
Pokemon Go‘s latest Incense Day is here to celebrate the arrival of Mega Ampharos into the popular mobile title. From 11 AM to 5 PM local time today, either Dragon-type or Electric-type Pokemon will spawn when you have Incense active. Additionally, Electric-type Pokemon will appear via Incense spawns from 11 AM to 1 PM and from 2 PM to 4 PM while Dragon-type Pokemon will appear via Incense spawns from 1 PM and 2 PM and from 4 PM to 5 PM. Additionally, Mareep will appear more often overall from Incense during the entire event. To help players participate in the Incense Day event, Pokemon Go is selling 3 Incense for 1 Poke Coin.
In addition to Mareep appearing more often during the event, any Ampharos evolved during the event will know the move Dragon Pulse, a move that it previously could only learn during a 2018 Community Day. Dragon Pulse is particularly handy when Ampharos Mega Evolves, as Mega Ampharos is an Electric/Dragon-type Pokemon and would gain a same type attack bonus when using the attack.
Pokemon confirmed to appear during the Incense Event includes: Pikachu, Magnemite, Voltorb, Chinchou, Mareep, Plusle, Minun, Stunfisk, Horsea, Dratini, Trapinch, Vibrava, Swablu, and Bagon. Note that Plusle, Minun, and Bagon are all needed to complete the Hoenn Celebration Event’s Collection Challenge.
In addition to today’s Incense Day, Pokemon Go is also hosting the aforementioned Hoenn Celebration Event, which features increased spawns of various Pokemon from the Hoenn region. This includes the addition of Groudon and Kyogre in 5-Star Raids through tomorrow, Monday January 25th. The game will then jump into a Johto Celebration event that will give players the opportunity to have certain Pokemon evolve to learn moves that were previously exclusive to older Community Days. All of these Celebration Events are leading towards the ticketed Pokemon Go Tour: Kanto event, which gives players a chance to capture Shiny versions of every Pokemon from the Kanto region.
