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Does infalling material leaves a detectable imprint on the black hole's event horizon?
An external observer will never see anything cross the event horizon, and in most explanations the story ends here.
But I wonder what happens with gravitational effects of the material?
For example ...
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Why does a black hole grow when it consumes matter? Isn't this a contradiction?
I've been thinking about this for a while but can't get my head around it.
A black hole's mass is such that its gravity can overcome light. Its event horizon, as I see it, is the boundary up to which ...
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