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What if we're looking at this from the wrong perspective? We say that a black hole forms inside a galaxy, but what if it's more accurate to say that a galaxy t
by runeks 10y ago
What if we're looking at this from the wrong perspective?
We say that a black hole forms inside a galaxy, but what if it's more accurate to say that a galaxy takes form around a black hole? So the galaxy extrudes from the black hole; and the larger the black hole, the larger the galaxy extruding from it. The size of the galaxy doesn't determine the size of the black hole within it; the size the black hole determines the size of the galaxy extruding from it.
It starts with the formation of a black hole from empty space, followed by the extrusion of matter from it. Eventually the extrusion fades out, and only the black hole is left for a while, until it, too, disappears into space.
So the black hole isn't really separate from either matter or space; it's the interface between space and matter - where the two converge. It would appear that infinite and zero density are the same, making the nature of the black hole both matter-like (infinite density) and space-like (zero density).