03-02-2004, 06:51 AM
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.
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.