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Black hole singularity is a surface not a point

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Re: Black hole singularity is a surface not a point

#6
what's really going to blow your mind is

while you probably assumed or knew spinning black holes move space around them

spinning black holes also move TIME around them

* https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ady9068

so in theory a spinning black hole that's been around for billions of years has a time drag around it in a path that is billions of years old

(no we can't navigate it because yes that would be time travel to the past and violates causality)

black holes are just so weird with every new detail even more weird

oddly more interesting to me to try to grasp neutron stars (densest objects before black holes and are still visible, our entire solar system in a neutron star would be only 10km 6.2miles across)

Re: Black hole singularity is a surface not a point

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Interesting work. The idea that the singularity is a surface rather than a point was unexpected to me even though it seems to follow logically from the theory of relativity. I wonder how this reconciles with quantum gravity. If the singularity is truly a two-dimensional surface, perhaps it's related to Hawking radiation and the thermodynamics of black holes?

Re: Black hole singularity is a surface not a point

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post #3

As is nicely visualised by it's Penrose Diagram, e.g. https://jila.colorado.edu/~ajsh/insidebh/penrose_schw.gif

Some PBS Space Time episodes featuring the Penrose Diagram (in order - the first two are from 9 years ago, the last from 6)

What Happens at the Event Horizon? - https://youtu.be/mht-1c4wc0Q

Escape The Kugelblitz Challenge - https://youtu.be/v3hd3AI2CAA

Mapping the Multiverse - https://youtu.be/4v9A9hQUcBQ

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