• Question: Whats at the bottom of a black hole

    Asked by to Kevin, Fiona, Elaine, Darren, Anna on 24 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by , .
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      Kevin O'Dell answered on 24 Jun 2014:


      Not my area of expertise but as I understand it black holes don’t actually have a bottom, it’s more that that have a middle. Apparently all the stuff that falls into the black hole gets compressed into this middle-point which will eventually become infinitely small. Somehow over an incredibly long period of time the mass will evaporate and the black hole will cease to exist. Please don’t ask me why.

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      Zhiming Darren Tan answered on 25 Jun 2014:


      I guess the short answer is that there’s lots of stuff inside a black hole. It’s basically a star that has collapsed under its own weight and shrunk to a small volume…

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