Wait what the fuck are black holes?

1. 2023-10-02 at 5:10 AM UTC

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   A College Professor victim of incest [your moreover breastless limestone]
   im a phsyicsist guy, ah this topic brings back memories lane reminds me of my thesis
2. 2023-10-02 at 5:11 AM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   Something I thought of recently though is, if spacetime is so distorted around the event horizon of a black hole, such that it would take basically an infinite amount of time for something to actually fall in (as seen by an outside observer), then how do black holes grow at all? Like there are supermassive black holes that have clearly swallowed millions of stars’ worth of mass, which means their event horizon must have grown around the objects that were swallowed. So to an outside observer, something MUST have gone in?
   
   I’ve tried reading about this and some people seem to have an answer but I can’t quite wrap my mind around it yet
3. 2023-10-02 at 5:19 AM UTC

   #43
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole

   Originally posted by Meikai Nevermind, figured it out. My misunderstanding here is thinking a singularity has infinite mass. I am retarded. They are infinitely dense because they have infinitesimal volume and any mass whatsoever. They're a product of black holes, not the cause. Doh.

   
   Oop should have read the thread u already solved it