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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Looks like a black sphere not a black hole to me.


51 posted on 02/28/2015 1:21:02 PM PST by mosaicwolf (Strength and Honor)
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To: mosaicwolf
Looks like a black sphere not a black hole to me.

The black sphere is not the black hole, it's the "event horizon" that surrounds the black hole.

The actual black hole is - well, no one knows for sure, but - probably much smaller than the event horizon. In fact, some people think the black hole itself may be smaller than a proton, but weigh 12 billion times as much as the sun.

55 posted on 02/28/2015 6:42:58 PM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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To: mosaicwolf

The sphere is a representation of the event horizon. The hole itself is 0 volume and infinite mass within our space.


56 posted on 02/28/2015 7:36:18 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: mosaicwolf

It is an artistic rendering....


57 posted on 02/28/2015 7:46:14 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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