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Old 05-October-2005, 09:42 PM
akirabakabaka akirabakabaka is offline
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Originally Posted by Blob
But the even weirder thing is that all the ppl who know about these things, talk of `singularities`(I do it myself) yet what they describe isn’t a singularity at all.

A black holes `singularity` can be kilometres across!
I'm not sure that is accurate. I think the singularity of a black hole is generally considered a point of zero size. The black hole's event horizon can be kilometers across, not the singularity within (giving rise to) the horizon.
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