2006-09-02 16:19:54 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Hi. The black hole has a volume equal to the radius of it's event horizon times (blah, blah the volume of a sphere). The singularity at it's center (should it exist) is an infinite density, zero volume entity. Whether or not this creature of man's imagination can exist or not cannot be proved or disproved as far as we know. But it really doesn't matter. If you consider the mass within the event horizon as an object you will be as close as anyone!
2006-09-02 16:23:35 · answer #1 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's no answer as yet to your question. Science is completely in the dark (..no pun intended) as far as the nature of black holes inside the event horizon. At this time, none of the known laws of physics can be applied beyond the event horizon. For instance, when any of Einstein's field equations are inserted into questions about physical mechanisms at work beyond the event horizon "impossible" solutions emerge, such as that a singularity lies at the heart of black holes. In this context, however, a singularity is a point of infinite mass contained within zero volume.
2006-09-02 16:31:46 · answer #2 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Black holes are totally cool. They do have some volume but it is minute. The reason is that the gravitational pull inside a Black hole is so dense that the atoms literally overlap each other. A bit of matter the size of this period. could weigh more than the solar system.
2006-09-02 16:28:38 · answer #3 · answered by snoweagleltd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very small, containing much mass. As Braxton put it, we don't know what is inside the event horizon, nobody does. We don't know if it is a singularity, or there is some volume. I've read that the universe prior to the big bang had some volume as well...maybe some feet or so in diameter...but that again is speculation...no one knows.
2006-09-02 17:09:37 · answer #4 · answered by powhound 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It probably does have volume Yet remember that the More Massive a Blackhole is as in quantity of matter the Smaller it is until it actually reaches what is known as the point of Infinite smallness.
2006-09-02 16:27:14 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Volume=something that has mass AND takes up space, but the black hole doesn't take up space, it is just a point, so no volume.
2006-09-02 16:24:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a black hole is not massive at all, it is actually extremely small in comparison, and it has an extremly small volume
A black hole is an object predicted by general relativity in science with a gravitational field so strong that nothing can escape it — not even light. It is created by an object so densly compacted that it creates an enormous gravitational pull, and repeatedly compacts itself, and the process repeats. If you compacted our sun to a diameter of 5 km (four millionths of its real size) then the resulting extreme density would create a black hole.
2006-09-02 16:28:47 · answer #7 · answered by zrogerz69 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You just said it. They're points. And a point, by definition, has no volume.
More correctly, they're 'singularities' within which even the notion of dimension (as well as space-time and matter-energy) gts a bit fuzzy.
OTOH, there *is* a 'volume' of space contained within their 'event horizon'.
Doug
2006-09-02 16:29:18 · answer #8 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋