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29. A black hole is a "hole", just not in a way most people can conceive

Reply to geardaddy (Original post)

Thu Nov 13, 2014, 12:26 AM

Nov 2014

At the singularity, spacetime and gravity have infinite curvature so it is a "hole" in the fabric of reality, as it were.

Course, the "black hole" is really the event horizon anyway. Which is a "hole" for light, it goes in but can't get out. Man, those things are hard to simplify.

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