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Old 28-March-2008, 03:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Cougar View Post
My unprofessional guess would be no. A beam of light at the event horizon in a (hypothetical) circular orbit around the center of the hole could not escape, so it could not get any further away from the hole's center, whatever that is.

All that infalling mass/energy has to do something. It's all still there and gravitationally affects its surroundings, just like before. We just don't have the physics that explains what ultimately stops the gravitational compression and where and at what density. I venture to think that most scientists agree that "infinite density" makes no sense.
Light speed orbit around a black hole is at twice the event horizon, or radius. Once you touch the event horizon, it's game over.
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