Ping!....................
Maybe they would, given time.
The properties of our Universe’s rubber sheet means it can form a deep gravity funnel that stretches ‘down’ without stretching much further ‘out’.
I’m rubber, you’re glue, stretch me ‘till I’m turtle blue.
Must. Resist. Making.The. Obvious. Joke.
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“They expand inward”.
That’s better than the overused “because”.
The opposite problem is actually the case: how did some black holes (supermassive and beyond) grow so large? Based on the matter density of the universe and calculating even from the earliest possible starting point (shortly after star formation began in our universe), you don’t get anything remotely close to supermassive black hole size. In fact, what you find when you run those numbers are the largest of the stellar black holes. So those black holes formed as we understand it today and grew over time to their size today.
But there’s an enormous gap in size where we don’t see many black holes. In fact, there’s debate about whether any of the objects in the “intermediate” class are actually black holes. If the largest ones grew naturally, there should be some of just about every size from the smallest to the largest. Instead, we’ve got small and super-sized.
The thinking behind this absurd idea is similar in intelligence to Xiden’s management of Afghanistan...
He’s basically saying Black Holes are constipated, other than the plasma gas they emit, nothing gets out.
Cool article!
I thought Leonard Susskind was dead, so, that was a surprise too.
So it’s not volume, it’s complexity that grows. Oddly, this makes intuitive sense.
Let’s say a star collapses on itself thus becoming a black hole. The object that results isn’t any more massive it’s just mire dense. So you might as well ask why this star (and by extension any star) doesn’t engulf everything around it. The answer seems to be that things are moving - fast - and typically away from other things. Also the distances involved are quite large (as a result of all that stuff already having expanded).
Fascinating, thx.
It’s often said that we might be living in a black hole. But we look around at our universe and it is expanding. How can the interior of a black hole expand when everything we know about a black hole says it is collapsing, or has collapsed, down to a single mathematical point??? But now maybe we know? If you are on the inside, it is “expanding in.” But if you are on the outside, it’s collapsing. In relativity and quantum mechanics, there are things just as strange or stranger. So I can live with it!
Why Don’t Black Holes Swallow All of Space?
Because space is really really big and mostly empty of things to consume.
Is it possible that physical laws can change in extreme conditions? Like before a singularity or just after? Or in the “interior” of a black hole?
If so, we can never figure out what has, or what will, happen. LaPlaces’ demon matters.