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Re: How black holes saved relativity

From moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney)
Newsgroups sci.physics
Subject Re: How black holes saved relativity
Date 2016-03-31 23:09 +0000
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john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> writes:

>Odd said
>"The fact that things orbit around it, subject to gravity. 
>If there were no matter staying in the black hole, there would be no 
>source of gravity to make them go around. "

>Odd, just because you've always
>seen things work this way doesn't 
>mean they always do.
>Nobody has seen inside a BH- nobody
>knows if ANYTHING is inside.

Yes we do.  We know there is matter inside, and how much, when a black
hole candidate affects nearby stars.  The best example is Sagittarius A*
at the center of the Milky Way, which has several stars orbiting it. These
stars are being tracked, and from Kepler's Laws we can tell they are
orbiting *something* that is about 4 million solar masses yet is very
small (otherwise the stars would hit it) and quite invisible.

If not a massive black hole, what is it?

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How black holes saved relativity Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-03-30 15:19 -0500
  Re: How black holes saved relativity "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2016-03-30 21:00 -0700
    Re: How black holes saved relativity john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-03-31 02:43 -0700
      Re: How black holes saved relativity "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2016-03-31 06:27 -0700
      Re: How black holes saved relativity HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2016-03-31 06:41 -0700
      Re: How black holes saved relativity moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-03-31 14:32 +0000
        Re: How black holes saved relativity john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-03-31 08:01 -0700
        Re: How black holes saved relativity john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-03-31 08:08 -0700
          Re: How black holes saved relativity HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2016-03-31 08:27 -0700
          Re: How black holes saved relativity moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-03-31 15:52 +0000
          Re: How black holes saved relativity Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-03-31 11:58 -0500
            Re: How black holes saved relativity john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-03-31 15:34 -0700
              Re: How black holes saved relativity Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-03-31 17:57 -0500
              Re: How black holes saved relativity moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-03-31 23:09 +0000
  Re: How black holes saved relativity vishnushelat@gmail.com - 2016-03-31 12:37 -0700
    Re: How black holes saved relativity "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2016-03-31 14:01 -0700
    Re: How black holes saved relativity HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2016-03-31 15:24 -0700
      Re: How black holes saved relativity "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2016-03-31 16:46 -0700
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