[alexander_busek]

The electrical repulsion would tend to frustrate the gravitational attraction.

Yeah, thought so.

A charged-particle would be repulsed by a like-charged Black Hole. Conceivably, one could "float" just outside the Event Horizon.

A few hundred pounds of electrons on the Moon and a few hundred pounds of electrons on the Earth would suffice to totally compensate for the gravitational attraction between the Earth and Moon - that's how powerful the electrostatic charge is.

If a spinning Black Hole can be oblate (flattened at the poles), could a charged Black Hole be polar (i.e. have measurable differences, from place to place over its "surface," in charge)?

Regards,

[rightwingcrazy]

The big mass at the center of the Milky Way might fit the bill. Not terribly far away, either. You go first; I’ll watch from here.

“If a spinning Black Hole can be oblate (flattened at the poles), could a charged Black Hole be polar (i.e. have measurable differences, from place to place over its “surface,” in charge)?”

Makes sense, but I’m not the right one to ask.