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Every explanation/illustration describes them as 'holes' in spacetime, usually the familiar funnel shape. Images of trampolines with bowling balls to describe gravity seem to be a common starting point.
But since space is not a flat plane, is it therefore a 'hole' from every angle?

A collapsed star would collapse inward, and so it seems that the proper illustration of a black hole would look similar to a 3D representation of a tesseract - only spherical - rather than a funnel coming to an infinitely dense point.

Sorry if this question is missing or misusing technical terminology.

2007-12-17 07:23:18 · 2 answers · asked by Spencer H 1 in Science & Mathematics Physics

*Or, "spatial," as the case may be*
Every explanation/illustration describes them as 'holes' in spacetime, usually the familiar funnel shape. Images of trampolines with bowling balls to describe gravity seem to be a common starting point.
But since space is not a flat plane, is it therefore a 'hole' from every angle?

A collapsed star would collapse inward, and so it seems that the proper illustration of a black hole would look similar to a 3D representation of a tesseract - only spherical - rather than a funnel coming to an infinitely dense point.

Sorry if this question is missing or misusing technical terminology.

2007-12-17 08:03:20 · update #1

2 answers

Yes, it's a hole from every direction. It's just that depicting that would require a four-dimensional surface, which our brains can't wrap around too easily. So we eliminate one of the spatial dimensions to simplify it.

Note, though, that an actual black hole often looks like a two-dimensional setup, because the accretion disk (the stuff swirling around waiting to fall in) tends to lie on a plane. But it doesn't swirl like a whirlpool or anything, it all stays on the same plane.

2007-12-17 08:11:30 · answer #1 · answered by Dvandom 6 · 0 0

a million. Black holes are formed from the give way of stars thrice the mass of the sunlight in supernova 2. the closest generic black hollow is the large enormous black hollow Sagittarius A*, although i'd shop a watch on eta Clarine, it has the mass of a hundred cases the sunlight and is approximately to blow up with in one thousand years(although is in all probability to blow up interior of this generations existence span) so it may well be exciting to work out remember fall into the hollow(and it wont be not hassle-free to work out becuase while it is going "hypernova" or an extremely large supernova it incredibly is going to possibly be waiting to study a e book decrease than it at night and notice it in the process the day) 3. in case you fall right into a black hollow that may not supper enormous the tidal forces rip aside the guy falling into the black hollow, if its a large enormous you will fall till you have been roasted at a million billion ranges(from the subject falling in)

2016-10-11 11:45:29 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

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