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Re: Black Holes
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Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:59:31 GMT
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Stefan Garcia wrote:

So
then, why is a Black Hole always depicted as an infinite toilet-flush?

Because it is a good (2D) description of its gravitational potential.

Jacob
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  Re: Black Holes
 
(...) I figured as much. So they really are infinitely dense pinpoints then, right? -Stefan- p.s. Cool rowing boat. (21 years ago, 11-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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  Black Holes
 
A Black Hole is supposed to be a collapsed neutron (type?) star, right? So then, why is a Black Hole always depicted as an infinite toilet-flush? I can understand that the "matter disc" forms into a disc because of gravity, like the rings of a (...) (21 years ago, 11-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)

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