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[–] 37 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

It depends what you mean by big. Are you talking mass or volume? If you're talking volume, you could argue the black hole consumes no space but perhaps you mean the space contained within the event horizon.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There are 2 parts. At the center is the singularity. Theoretically, this is an infinitely small point of infinite density. This has no volume. Around this is the event horizon. This has volume, and is what we refer to as a black hole. Theoretically, you could have a black hole without a singularity, you just need an area dense enough that light can't escape.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    If singularity exists at all.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Agreed.

    I personally don't think they exist. More likely space-time gets tied in an extreme knot. The gradients produce Hawking radiation. This radiation will both evaporate the mass from the black hole, as well as provide radiation pressure on in-falling matter. From the outside, hawking radiation is incredibly weak. Time dilation will push the pressure towards infinity, as the dilation approaches infinity (at the event horizon).

    Matter would never actually reach the event horizon. The radiation pressure would increase to push it away. The event horizon would also recede ahead, as the black hole evaporates. The matter would skim the event horizon, but not actually cross it.

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