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Old 20-February-2008, 06:49 PM
John Mendenhall John Mendenhall is offline
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Originally Posted by neilzero View Post
As I see it, nothing special happens at the event horizon of a super massive black hole except light that escapes is curved back so that it re-enters the event horizon(local observer).
Does not escape and dive back in. It never escapes.

Also keep in mind that we infer the existence of black holes. The non-rotating Schwarzchild solution to the GR equations is a special case.
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