What's All this Shit Going on in Congress?

[Wisemon]

slightly off-topic, it's my personal theory that black holes aren't what they seem to be. i think it to be entirely possible that they don't actually pull matter into them, but rather distort energies and magnetic fields.

see, if black holes actually did have such a massive gravitational pull, they would not only pull things into them from a far greater distance than what it appears that they do, but their gravitational field would grow at an exponential rate due the emense volume of matter that would be continuosly pulled into the mass. so it's theoretically impossible that there could be such a massively powerful celestial body without causeing everything around it to be pulled into it at a dramatically fast and constantly increasing rate; which means the black hole at the center of our galaxy would have long ago enveloped the milky way in it's entirety, judging by it's estimated age.

That's an interesting theory, and you could be right, but I think the reason why black holes don't keep growing is because they're surrounded by the vacuum of space. They already pulled in all the matter that they could, and there's nothing left in range for them to pull. By "in range", I mean the gravitational radius, which is proportional to the black hole's gravitational pull. Even with an infinite amount of time, everything wouldn't necessarily get pulled into the center of the galaxy, because the gravity is only enough to create an orbital effect similar to the one for our solar system...or hold us in place. Does the galaxy spin? I'm not really sure.