Started this thread since it was going off topic in original thread.
But isn't 3-20 solar masses (TOV limit on stellar black holes) a small enough figure and a large enough range that by varying mass and speed we might arrive at a better estimate of what happened, if we want to keep close to the original idea?
Possibly. A 3 M
S black hole would have an event horizon of 9km. It is theorized that black holes can actually grow as they eat more matter. I tend to believe this, else how can one get those super monsters at galactic centers? This kind of supercedes the hypothesis of black holes having infinite mass.
If the event horizon can grow as a black hole eats more matter (mass), does this not preclude that the singularity in its heart is infinite mass?
However, I hypothesize that a black hole's singularity is of infinite mass. As one approaches the speed of light, mass increases. If one were to go at the speed of light, mass becomes infinite (or undefined). I don't have the equation on hand here at UNM, but I do remember, mass increases until the speed of light, then it becomes infinite.
Thus, by simple logic, if light cannot escape from a black hole's singularity, then the singularity must have infinite mass. I know,
really bad science, and probably even worse logic, but that is how I derive the fact that once a black hole forms, it is of infinite mass.
Besides, even if a black hole were to hit another celestial object, especially by direct impact, would it not simply "eat" that object and keep on going?
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