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Does someone falling into a black hole see the end of the universe?
This question was prompted by Can matter really fall through an event horizon?. Notoriously, if you calculate the Schwarzschild coordinate time for anything, matter or light, to reach the event ...
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Why does Stephen Hawking say black holes don't exist?
Recently, I read in the journal Nature that Stephen Hawking wrote a paper claiming that black holes do not exist. How is this possible? Please explain it to me because I didn't understand what he ...
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How can anything ever fall into a black hole as seen from an outside observer?
The event horizon of a black hole is where gravity is such that not even light can escape. This is also the point I understand that according to Einstein time dilation will be infinite for a far-away-...
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Thought experiment - would you notice if you fell into a black hole?
I've heard many scientists, when giving interviews and the like, state that if one were falling into a black hole massive enough that the tidal forces at the event horizon weren't too extreme, that ...
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Would touching a black hole of a small mass (the mass of an apple) cause you to spiral in and get dead?
I know that a typical stellar black hole would spaghettify someone who crosses its event horizon.
Is this also true for a hypothetical tiny black hole with a small mass (the mass of an apple)? Would ...
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Do all black holes have a singularity?
If a large star goes supernova, but not enough mass collapses to form a black hole, it often forms a neutron star. My understanding is that this is the densest object that can exist because of the ...
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Black holes and positive/negative-energy particles
I was reading Brian Greene's "Hidden Reality" and came to the part about Hawking Radiation. Quantum jitters that occur near the event horizon of a black hole, which create both positive-energy ...
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Can you exit the event horizon with a rocket?
The reason given in most places about why one cannot escape out from an event horizon is the fact that the escape velocity at the event horizon is equal to the speed of light, and no one can go faster ...
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Why isn't the circumferential light around the M87 black hole's event horizon symmetric?
After the revelation of the first black hole images, it seems there is a bias towards the south side. Is it because of measuring it from earth or is it something more fundamental in the understanding ...
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Does any particle ever reach any singularity inside the black hole?
I am not a professional physicist, so I may say something rubbish in here, but this question has always popped in my mind every time I read or hear anyone speak of particles hitting singularities and "...
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How much mass can colliding black holes lose as gravitational waves?
Concerning the recent detection of gravitational waves produced by colliding black holes, it has been reported that a significant percentage of the combined mass was lost in the resulting production ...
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Are black holes very dense matter or empty?
The popular description of black holes, especially outside the academia, is that they are highly dense objects; so dense that even light (as particle or as waves) cannot escape it once it falls inside ...
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If I fall into an evaporating black hole, where do I end up?
This question has been bothering me for a while. I have a crude hypothesis...
As I understand it, an observer falling into a black hole will cross the event horizon at some specific future (proper) ...
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Why don't merging black holes disprove the no-hair theorem?
The no-hair theorem of black holes says they're completely categorised by their charge and angular momentum and mass.
But imagine two black holes colliding. At some point their event horizons would ...
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Why singularity in a black hole, and not just "very dense"?
Why does there have to be a singularity in a black hole, and not just a very dense lump of matter of finite size? If there's any such thing as granularity of space, couldn't the "singularity" be just ...
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