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In layman's terms, isn't the take that the area of a black hole is devoid of space? Therefore you can never see or measure it except for forces generated by it
by datavirtue 2y ago
In layman's terms, isn't the take that the area of a black hole is devoid of space? Therefore you can never see or measure it except for forces generated by it within our space.
- ajkjk 2y agoThe claim of general relativity is that a black hole is a singularity in spacetime, meaning that space effectively "ends" there. A very crude model would be cutting a hole out of fabric and then sewing the circle up into a point. The area of the hole is "gone" --- it's not like it's there and you can't see it, it's just not there. I guess that it is what you mean by "devoid of space". Then the rest of the fabric is bent in weird ways around the fact that there's a chunk missing, which in physics manifests as as everything being pulled towards it (and there is a point, the event horizon, at which things are no longer possible to interact with, like you're too deep in the hole to get out again.