The largest Black Hole compared to Our Solar System

  • jballs@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    That’s the thing about black holes that always blows my mind. I don’t understand how the larger a black hole is, the less dense that it is. In my mind, I always think of black holes as super dense objects containing so much matter in such a little space that the gravity is crazy strong. How can something so not dense be a black hole? It doesn’t make sense to me!

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      1 year ago

      To be fair, the density is calculated from the event horizon, which is a somewhat arbitrary boundary. All the mass is still concentrated at the singularity which is still infinitely dense, just… a bit more so.

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        1 year ago

        Ah, I didn’t realize that. I guess that’s a little more terrifying. Sounds like you could pass the event horizon and not be instantly crushed, but would have no way of ever escaping. You’d just eventually get sucked into the singularity.