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Old 03-14-2008, 05:12 AM
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Originally Posted by mrblonde77 View Post
The term black hole is really a misnomer. It's not a hole. It's an object with mass that just so happens to have a fuckton of gravity (I know I'm objectifying gravity :\ sorry), so much that not even light can "jump" off the object. It just gets absorbed into it. Think of it like a ball of playdough, and you throw some crumbs at it and they get stuck in the playdough and can't fall off / get out of the playdough. What you're describing sounds more like a wormhole or something heh.
Would it theoretically be possible that the light is not absorbed, but rather bent "centripetally"? In other words, does light become invisible when bent by such intense mass?
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