How does gravity escape a black hole?

Question

Has anyone thought of this?

Answer 1

gravity isnt something tangible that can be pulled. like objects or light. Think of gravity instead as a curve in space time, instead of as a force, and things following along the path will fall into a deeper curve or impression in space time, a black hole creates a very deep curve in space time, or gravity. so gravity isnt something that can be pulled in, its what's doing the pulling in if you will.

Answer 2

You must understand gravity first, and then you can answer your question.

Einsteinian theory states that gravity nothing but mass. Mass creates a indention on the Space/time plane, causing gravity. I said you must first understand gravity, but in all actuallity, no one really understands it.

A black hole is theorietically a huge mass in space. So huge that it disrupts space time with such a large indention, that not even light can escape it. There is no question of how gravity escapes a black hole, gravity is the black hole. The gravitational forces are so strong, that it sucks all masses in the area. A mass, which causes gravity, that is "sucked" into the black hole really contributes to the mass of the black hole.

A black hole is essentially a very, very heavy planet. Just like you would weigh more on a big planet, you would weight a lot more on a black hole (unsurvivable of course). Unlike a huge planet though, the hole is not nessesarily big, just really dense. Just as a brick of wood is less dense than a brick of gold.

So, gravity doesn't escape, nor not escape anything. A black hole isn't really a "hole" in space, but just a really dense planet or star. It appears to be a hole because its gravitational forces have become so strong, not even light within the area can escape. So if you shine a big (very big) flashlight into it, you will see nothing, just emptiness.

So, how does gravity escape a black hole? Gravity isn't an entity. It is mass, and mass, nor light, not even time, can escape a black hole once the hole is in the region.

Answer 3

The reason things get sucked into a black hole is because gravity pulls on them, gravity cannot pull on gravity, because identical forces cannot affect their bretheren by any means, that's one of "my laws of the universe" that has slowly compiled itself inside my head, and besides that, gravity is possibly the only force in the universe that we have no idea how it works...oh we know what it DOES, granted, but we're none the wiser of how it actually does that.

Someone's gonna object and say forces do affect each other, and I'm gonna slap em and call em ninja sissies, because a force is an intangible thing, now two forces acting on an object may seem like 2 forces acting on each other, but the fact that a force is intangible means that it can't attack another intangible object. Some people will say that "because light gets sucked into a black hole, other forces should get sucked in"...NO! WRONG! BAD BRAIN! Light actually has....not exactly mass but substance, photons, and the simple fact that we can see it makes it tangible, even air is tangible, we can feel it. Anything that is tangible is effected by gravity, except possibly radio waves, those MIGHT fall under intangible even though they're really just light, but has anyone ever observed how a radio wave is affected by a black hole? Me neither.

Answer 4

you assume that it does but since the BLACK HOLE is only a theory at this time then I will agree with that assumption and yes the theory predicts that the disturbance in space will actually PRODUCE gravity waves as well as other emissions --------since it produces gravity waves ( current theory says gravity is a 'wave' ) then escape is not a term i would apply since they 'radiate' from the 'event horizon' and in current theory gravity radiates in one direction and cannot be reversed ( there would be gravity waves in the other direction also but it doesn't matter since they can only go inward ) FINAL THOUGHT you are making an assumption here that gravity can be ATTRACTED like MASS it cannot it can only be reduced or canceled by more gravity acting in an opposing direction ( i could have gave a one sentence answer - oh well I've always been a bit long winded !) oh and yes it would seem that I HAVE thought of it. ( as did the mathematicians who wrote the theory )

Answer 5

the gravitational field of a black hole 'escapes' the black hole not only because portions of the star are still outside the event horizon, but because there is more to the gravitational field than just the part that is produced by matter.

when an object collapses to become a black hole, the star collapses fast at first then seems to slow down, and fade to black, as the gravitational shifts become significant. Someone riding the surface of this star to its doom would find that the process takes only a few seconds before the star has collapsed inside its own event horizon.

Answer 6

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm, pretty interesting. Had to think for a while!

You question would only make sense if you believe in gravity rays or something as if gravity is emitted and pulls other matter towards its origin. Even then, one can simply say that black holes are strong enough to not let light go but not strong enough to stop gravity.

BUT, if we stay with Einstein and think of a black hole as putting a giant dent in the space-time fabric, then black holes only affirm this hypothesis instead of contradicting it.

I must say that it is something original and I have never heard of this conjecture before.

Answer 7

Your question illustrates that gravity is NOT an electromagnetic radiation. According to Einstein's theory, gravity is a distortion mass causes to space and time.

Gravity is not "escaping" because it is simply an expression of the mass of the black hole.

Black holes have two physical attributes: mass and spin.

Answer 8

Gravity cannot exist in a black hole so there is none to escape.

Answer 9

There is a region associated with black holes called the 'event horizon.' Outside the borders of the event horizon it's still possible to remain in the "normal" universe. Beyond the event horizon, nothing can return to the "normal universe."

What we call 'gravity' is a distortion of spacetime caused by the presence of mass. The gravitational effects--distorted spacetime--of a black hole extend outward far beyond the event horizon. Inside the event horizon the known laws of physics break down, so science can only guess at what happens. One guess is that spacetime is bent back on itself.

Answer 10

because black holes have singularities at their middle, theoretically talking, they have great gravitational pulls. even with the undeniable fact that gravity isn't a particle or wave, this is the indentation of area-time. imagine about it like this: once you've a waterbed and also you placed a bowling ball contained in the middle, there is going to be a community around the bowling ball it really is pulled down through the mass of the bowling ball. The more effective the mass of the bowling ball, the more effective the indentation. a similar is going for celestial bodies mutually with black holes and quasars.