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To: NormsRevenge
"If you change the mass of the black hole, you change how the black hole relates to the galaxy." Ya think? ... Ya mean a ten inch drain will suck out pool water faster than a four inch drain?
15 posted on 06/08/2009 5:03:09 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: MHGinTN
Re: "If you change the mass of the black hole, you change how the black hole relates to the galaxy."

Ya think? ... Ya mean a ten inch drain will suck out pool water faster than a four inch drain?

If you increase the mass inside a black hole, the 'event horizon' (the distance from the BH center in which objects must exceed the speed of light in order to escape the BH's gravitational field) grows to a larger diameter. The 'singularity' at the BH's center, being an infinitely small region of infinitely concentrated mass, stays the same size, at least as I understand it.

21 posted on 06/08/2009 5:16:23 PM PDT by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: MHGinTN

In other words, I think you’re right.


24 posted on 06/08/2009 5:18:54 PM PDT by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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