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Originally Posted by Tom Earp
Wow, I am impressed! So a Black Hole is just a sponge but on a bigger level!
It is not a slingshot to the future is it!
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lol. I don't know Tom. I guess if you want to look at it that way. I always thought sponges did more of an absorbing thing, where as black holes routinely dine upon wayward stars and unsuspecting gas clouds in a different way. A sponge is a great comparisson though.
With black holes, as a cloud approaches it, it hardly ever falls straight in, like water absorbing into a sponge. A gas cloud is typically drawn into orbit before it spirals into the hole. When I took physics we had to learn a bunch of terms and one of them was "Differential Rotation". In this case, if the laws of physics apply to black holes which I'm guessing they do, the parts of the cloud that are closer to the black hole will orbit faster than the parts that are farther away.
Is it a slingshot to the future? I don't know. I've heard that they could be time warps. We would never know, unless we can develop some kind of machine that can withstand being ripped to shreads by its strong gravity.
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