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Doesn't any spherically symmetric configuration of mass compressed into an area smaller than the Schwarzschild radius create a gravitational force strong enough
by btouellette 11y ago
Doesn't any spherically symmetric configuration of mass compressed into an area smaller than the Schwarzschild radius create a gravitational force strong enough such that light can't escape? If there was an unknown force that could prevent the collapse at some level below the Schwarzschild radius it would still be dense enough to capture light. And there certainly could be since our understanding of things at the Planck scale isn't complete.
- PuffinBlue 11y agoFirst question answer: yes Second question: yes maybe. No one knows. An interesting aside is that infinite density occurs only (I think) with no rotating singularities which don't exist in reality. Anything rotating will produce a non-infinitely dense singulatiry somehow, though the details of the maths behind that elude me.
- techdragon 11y agoKerr vs non Kerr blackholes is where I usually start replying with "we don't know" to every second question. But broadly speaking the inside is theorised to be a 1 dimensional torus having only diameter as a measurable quantity other than the location of its center of mass. This is opposed to a zero dimensional point having only the location of its center of mass. This means the mass is distributed through the torus and is "less infinite" in the aleph zero vs aleph one kind of way. It just gets weirder from there haha