Sentences with phrase «singularity as a hole»

You can almost think of the Schwarzschild singularity as a hole in the fabric of space - time.

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A black hole hides its singularity with a boundary known as the event horizon.

Singularities can also serve as seeds of destruction, lurking in the centres of black holes, the final endpoints of total gravitational collapse.

The paradox could also be resolved if black holes do not include a true singularity, or if, as Stephen Hawking has suggested, the Hawking radiation contains the information, albeit in a mangled and unreadable state.

Mathematically, a black hole is a so - called singularity — a place where space and time become so distorted that the equations of general relativity yield infinities, rather than rational numbers, as solutions.

Standard theory held that a black hole's intense gravity pulled all that material toward the singularity in the center, where space and time as we knew them came to an end.

It has time slowing as you approach the hole's edge, the so - called horizon, and then inside the horizon, time flows toward and into the singularity [the central spot of infinite density and zero volume], dragging everything that's inside the horizon forward in time to its destruction.

«Passengers on a spaceship would like some guarantee that when they fall into this black hole and get smooshed into the singularity, they can be recreated as it evaporates,» Lloyd told New Scientist.

The metaphor implicit in the term «singularity» as applied to future human history is not to a point of infinity, but rather to the event horizon surrounding a black hole.