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Originally Posted by mrblonde77
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.
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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?