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
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Spencer H
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*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