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Chappo Hasn't Forgotten
Chappo Hasn't Forgotten
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To be entirely covered by material, it'd have to be surrounded by material in the first place.

It's my understanding that most matter in the universe tends to organize in a plane or some description. (maybe because it's a vastly simpler orientation,orientation; or the most material came from stars/supernovae, and in anything rotating in multiple directions at once those rotations sum together to be a single one.).

Heck, there may be black holes out there that're currently (minus light ToF) surrounded by accretion disks. But it's far less likely to happen (how many disks do you need tto cover a ball?), and you wouldn't know because youyyou can't see it.

Only way to know for sure is to wait for such a black hole to get discovered due to its mass, and then for a bright set of disks to be seen obscuring it. (thoughThough, with distance, and a sufficiently bright disk, this could happen with just one.)

To be entirely covered by material, it'd have to be surrounded by material in the first place.

It's my understanding that most matter in the universe tends to organize in a plane or some description. (maybe because it's a vastly simpler orientation, or the most material came from stars/supernovae and in anything rotating in multiple directions at once those rotations sum together to be a single one.)

Heck, there may be black holes out there that're currently (minus light ToF) surrounded by accretion disks. But it's far less likely to happen (how many disks do you need t cover a ball?), and you wouldn't know because youy can't see it.

Only way to know for sure is to wait for such a black hole to get discovered due to its mass, and then for a bright set of disks to be seen obscuring it. (though, with distance, and a sufficiently bright disk this could happen with just one.)

To be entirely covered by material, it'd have to be surrounded by material in the first place.

It's my understanding that most matter in the universe tends to organize in a plane or some description (maybe because it's a vastly simpler orientation; or most material came from stars/supernovae, and in anything rotating in multiple directions at once those rotations sum together to be a single one).

Heck, there may be black holes out there that're currently (minus light ToF) surrounded by accretion disks. But it's far less likely to happen (how many disks do you need to cover a ball?), and you wouldn't know because you can't see it.

Only way to know for sure is to wait for such a black hole to get discovered due to its mass, and then for a bright set of disks to be seen obscuring it. (Though, with distance and a sufficiently bright disk, this could happen with just one.)

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To be entirely covered by material, it'd have to be surrounded by material in the first place.

It's my understanding that most matter in the universe tends to organize in a plane or some description. (maybe because it's a vastly simpler orientation, or the most material came from stars/supernovae and in anything rotating in multiple directions at once those rotations sum together to be a single one.)

Heck, there may be black holes out there that're currently (minus light ToF) surrounded by accretion disks. But it's far less likely to happen (how many disks do you need t cover a ball?), and you wouldn't know because youy can't see it.

Only way to know for sure is to wait for such a black hole to get discovered due to its mass, and then for a bright set of disks to be seen obscuring it. (though, with distance, and a sufficiently bright disk this could happen with just one.)