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Tell me you don't understand black holes using a lot of words.
As far as gravity goes they are equivalent to the star that they collapsed from and just as deadly.
The difference is that you can get that much closer before "impacting" with it, but you and superman would be fucked pretty much at the same distance from it.
And I think you need a lot less than 300 writers to conjure an idea that leverage our fantasy in more and better ways.
And an infinitely dense point in spacetime doesn't necessarily exist: it's just what general relativity predicts is at the center of a black hole.
The last time our physical model of the universe predicted an infinite value, we ended up discovering new physics eventually (the ultraviolet catastrophe). (Edit: ultrasound was a typo).
I think you're referring to the ultraVIOLET catastrophe
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_catastrophe
yeesh, what was the ultrasound catastrophe then?
That whole comment was a struggle to type on my phone at the time because the screen was wet, so at the end that one slipped though.
still, kind of funny wondering what an ultrasonic catastrophe might have been
It's what OP's parents call the first day they saw him.
aw thats kinda mean