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If that were the case, wouldn't that mean that the moment a black hole is formed, it would never become any larger? How have super-massive black holes formed i
by tvmalsv 11y ago
If that were the case, wouldn't that mean that the moment a black hole is formed, it would never become any larger? How have super-massive black holes formed in less than 14 billion years?
- guard-of-terra 11y agoThis is a very interesting question and I'm unaware of a definite answer.
- ars 11y agoThe answer is both simple and controversial: They have not. Black holes do not exist because they take an infinite amount of time to form. See the thread elsewhere on this page.
- oldmanjay 11y agoYou're making some awfully assertive statements for not having proved your case. Dismissal of all answers as "hand-wavy" does not actually make your non-argument more compelling.
- jdmichal 11y agoThe concept is known as "eternally collapsing objects", and has survived peer review just as much as any other concept discussed here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetospheric_eternally_collapsing_object http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetospheric_eternally_collap... This is actually something that is verifiable, given time, since traditional black holes may not sustain their own magnetic field, but MECOs can.