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Re: Black Holes
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Tue, 12 Aug 2003 03:17:18 GMT
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Rick Hallman <[rick_hallman@hotmail.]AntiSpam[com]>
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No, Stefan, a Black Hole is a collapsed super-giant star. If a star is like
our sun it will grow, then shrink to a white dwarf. If it were some bigger,
it would collapse to a neutron star (where a spoonful weighs millions of
tons), and if it were a super-giant star such as Rigel it collapses under
it's own weight causing a rip in the space-time continuum.
The space toilet bowl effect is what is believed to occur because of
centrifical force from collecting objects and matter and also from collected
images of theorized black holes in the center of galaxies, Cygnus X-1, and
others.
-Rick
"Stefan Garcia" <sastrei@netscape.net> wrote in message
news:HJGJrG.1BC9@lugnet.com...
> 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.
>
> -Stefan--"maybe too much time on his hands"-G.
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