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Old 08-May-2008, 06:51 PM
Jeff Root Jeff Root is offline
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It would take only a few milliseconds before even light from an intense
gamma-ray source, falling through the event horizon, was so redshifted
that it could no longer be picked up by a radio antenna a mile long.

-- Jeff, in Minneapolis
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