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Is it possible to have a singularity with zero mass?
A singularity, by the definition I know, is a point in space with infinite of a property such as density.
Density is Mass/Volume.
Since the volume of a singularity is 0, then the density will thus ...
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What is a sudden singularity?
I've seen references to some sort of black hole (or something) referred to as a sudden singularity, but I haven't seen a short clear definition of what this is for the layman.
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Superposition of Ricci scalars [closed]
Suppose I have two point/line singularities in spacetime (what is important to me is that they are localized). Also suppose I have some fields in spacetime and that the two singularities interact with ...
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Singularities in Schwarzchild space-time
Can anyone explain when a co-ordinate and geometric singularity arise in Schwarzschild space-time with the element
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What happens to light and mass in the center of a black hole?
I know that black holes are "black" because nothing can escape it due to the massive gravity, but I am wondering if there are any theories as to what happens to the light or mass that enters a black ...
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What happens to things when things get crushed in a blackhole [duplicate]
When a black hole destroys things until they are smaller than molecules, where does it go and what happens when it clogs up?
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Can we have a black hole without a singularity?
Assuming we have a sufficiently small and massive object such that it's escape velocity is greater than the speed of light, isn't this a black hole? It has an event horizon that light cannot escape, ...
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How to thoroughly distinguish a coordinate singularity and a physical singularity
In a course on general relativity I am following at the moment, it was shown that the singularity $r=2M$ in the Schwarzschild solution is a consequence of the choice of coordinates. Introducing ...
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Naked singularity and null coordinates
I'm trying to understand the notion of a naked singularity on a more mathematical level (intuitively, it's a singularity "one can see and poke with a stick", but I'm having troubles on how to actually ...
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Naked singularity and extendable geodesics
I'm currently trying to understand the notion of a naked singularity. After consulting books by Wald and Choquet-Bruhat, it seems that for a naked singularity one must have that the causal curves can ...
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Fighting a black hole: Could a strong spherical shell inside an event horizon resist falling in to the singularity?
As a thought experiment imagine an incredibly strong spherical shell with a diameter a bit smaller than the event horizon of a particular large black hole. The shell is split into two hemispheres, ...
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What is the definition of a timelike and spacelike singularity?
What is the definition of a timelike and spacelike singularity?
Trying to find, but haven't yet, what the definitions are.
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Is black hole bright at center?
As we know that light photon cannot escape the gravity of black hole so I was thinking that if that is the surface of the black hole would be bright as all the photons would be there only. Am I right ...
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If an anti-matter singularity and a normal matter singularity, of equal masses, collided would we (outside the event horizon) see an explosion?
If an anti-matter singularity and a normal matter singularity, of equal masses, collided would we (outside the event horizon) see an explosion?
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Why does a black hole have a finite mass?
I mean besides the obvious "it has to have finite mass or it would suck up the universe." A singularity is a dimensionless point in space with infinite density, if I'm not mistaken. If something is ...
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Future light cones inside black hole
In Caroll's Spacetime and Geometry, page 227, he says that from the Schwarzschild metric, you can see than from inside a black hole future events all lead to the singularity. He says you can see this ...
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What happens to a photon in a black hole?
Assume a photon enters the event horizon of a black hole. The gravity of the black hole will draw the photon into the singularity eventually. Doesn't the photon come to rest and therefore lose it's ...
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Is singularity at the exact centre of a black hole?
I've read that all paths inside the EH lead to singularity. ALL paths. Even the ones pointing away from it, right? Because there's NO pointing away from singularity, since ALL paths point to it.
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about the 1D singularity of black hole
I saw some responses here saying that the singularity into the black hole is one dimension object so my question is : is it possible that the singularity is simply a merger of the 4 dimensions of the ...
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Electric field singularities
Is this the list of all possible singularities in electrostatic field $E$?
near the point charge: $\frac{1}{r^2}$
near the line of charge: $\frac{1}{r}$
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Is sonoluminescence relevant to the behaviour of Navier-Stokes (or converse)?
More precisely, could Sonoluminescence be a singularity of Navier-Stokes(NS)?
Is there some other connection that might be interesting, or is it completely irrelevant?
Wiki page mentions NS, but says ...
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How does a geodesic equation on an n-manifold deal with singularities?
My general premise is that I want to investigate the transformations between two distinct sets of vertices on n-dimensional manifolds and then find applications to theoretical physics by:
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Gravity from a singularity as distance approaches zero
If you had a singularity (that had mass but took up no space), what would happen to the acceleration of an object as it approached this singularity? I would assume that it would be infinite, since as ...
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Was the singularity at Big Bang perfectly uniform and if so, why did the universe lose its uniformity?
Am I right in understanding that current theory states that Big Bang originated from a single point of singularity?
If so, would this mean that this was a uniform point?
If so, as the universe ...
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Relationship between Weak Cosmic Censorship and Topological Censorship
The weak cosmic censorship states that any singularity cannot be in the causual past of null infinity (reference).
The topological censorship hypothesis states that in a globally hyperbolic, ...
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What is the state-of-the-art on spacelike singularities in string theory?
What lessons do we have from string theory regarding the fate of singularities in general relativity?
What happens to black hole singularities? What happens to cosmological singularities?
Which ...
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Why singularity in a black hole, and not just “very dense”?
Why does there have to be a singularity in a black hole, and not just a very dense lump of matter of finite size? If there's any such thing as granularity of space, couldn't the "singularity" be just ...
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Was the Big Bang a result of a decayed white hole singularity? [closed]
From my understanding, the Big Bang is theorized to have been a result of matter ejecting from a decayed white hole space/time singularity.
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An electron falling into a black hole
If an electron falls into a black hole. How can the Heisenberg uncertainty principle hold? The electron has fallen into the singularity now so it has a well defined position which means that it ...
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Why are black hole singularities stable?
The Friedmann equations says that huge matter densities lead to huge expansion rates. In Newtonian gravity, two massive point particles separated by an infinitesimal distance will experience an ...
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What happens to matter in extremely high gravity?
Though I am a software engineer, I have bit interest in sciences as well. I was reading about black holes and I thought if there is any existing research results on How matter gets affected because of ...
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Do all black holes have a singularity?
If a large star goes supernova, but not enough mass collapses to form a black hole, it often forms a neutron star. My understanding is that this is the densest object that can exist because of the ...
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Tension in a curved charged wire (electrostatic force) - does wire thickness matter?
Consider a conducting wire bent in a circle (alternatively, a perfectly smooth metal ring) with a positive (or negative) electric charge on it. Technically, this shape constitutes a torus. Assume ...
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Event horizons without singularities
Someone answered this question by saying that black hole entropy conditions and no-hair theorems are asymptotic in nature -- the equations give an ideal solution which is approached quickly but never ...
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Why is matter drawn into a black hole condensed into a single point within the singularity? [duplicate]
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Why is matter drawn into a black hole not condensed into a single point within the singularity?
When we speak of black holes and their associated singularity, why is ...
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Why is matter drawn into a black hole not condensed into a single point within the singularity?
When we speak of black holes and their associated singularity, why is matter drawn into a black hole not condensed into a single point within the singularity?
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How can something finite become infinite?
How can the universe become infinite in spatial extent if it started as a singularity, wouldn't it take infinite time to expand into an infinite universe?
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What happens to light that falls into a black hole?
When light enters a black hole, what happens to it?
I imagine the photons will either fall into the singularity, or the light will orbit just inside the event horizon indefinately.
(Some background ...
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Moving “virtual” singularity?
Imagine two close, really big black holes rapidly spinning around each other. That setup would emit a terrible amount of gravitational waves. My question is, could those gravitational waves, if big ...
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What would a rotating black-hole look like to a “geo-stationary” observer orbiting the black hole
A rotating black hole is believed to contain a ring singularity rather than a point.
However, if an astronaut is orbiting the black hole at exactly the same angular velocity as the blackhole (in ...
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a question about singularities in gravity and Physics in general
I had this doubt bugging my mind for a long time about singularities in Physics. I heard that R.Penrose and S.Hawking have proposed that there could be singularities at Blackholes and at the time of ...
