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[-] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago

Tell me you don't understand black holes using a lot of words.

As far as gravity goes they are equivalent to the star that they collapsed from and just as deadly.

The difference is that you can get that much closer before "impacting" with it, but you and superman would be fucked pretty much at the same distance from it.

And I think you need a lot less than 300 writers to conjure an idea that leverage our fantasy in more and better ways.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

You'd also likely burn to death pretty early on in the process. Like, the moment you cross the event horizon, instant death.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Actually you wouldn't notice anything special crossing the event horizon. You'd just continue to fall.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Sounds like they are referring to the photon sphere.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I assumed it would be further inward than the photon sphere because heat radiation is (also an assumption) easier for gravity to hold back than light. I don't know how "heavy" a star's heat is, though, so ¯\ˍ(ツ)ˍ/¯

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Heat radiation are particles with a mass and a certain speed, they are all by definition heavier and easier to trap than photons.

In terms of escape velocity, nothing can try to escape faster than light.

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