Field guide No. 1428

A pile of copper coins lies on wet asphalt, and a stubby black peg has pushed up out of the middle of each. Spending them is now someone else’s event horizon.

Copper coins with emerging black holes

Small change with a dark centre

A pile of copper coins lies on wet asphalt, and a stubby black peg has pushed up out of the middle of each. Spending them is now someone else’s event horizon.

Field noteCoins get lost down holes; here the holes come up out of the coins, black and solid.

Specimen
No. 1428
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
Wet asphalt beside a kerb, coins in a heap.
Nearest existing relative
A drawing pin.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Objects

Also possible, also breaking physics