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Re: Black Holes
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Tue, 12 Aug 2003 03:12:56 GMT
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Stefan Garcia wrote:
> 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 planet, but shouldn't the actual
> whatever-is-at-the-heart-of-a-black-hole be an infinitely small pinpoint?
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> I'd attribute this to popular myth, except that even NASA seems to show the
> "infinite toilet-flush" as the shape of a black hole.
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> -Stefan--"maybe too much time on his hands"-G.
If it's a rotating black hole (and just about everything in the universe
rotates), then the vacuum solution to the Einstein Field equations gives
a flat ring shaped singularity rather than a point.
--
J. Spencer Rezkalla - "too many astrophysics books, not enough time to
read them"-G
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