🤔 Black hole myth busted: they don't suck anything in
🤔 Black hole myth busted: they don't suck anything in
bigthink.com Black hole myth busted: they don't suck anything in
Many of us look at black holes as cosmic vacuum cleaners: sucking in everything in their vicinity. But it turns out they don't suck at all.
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Ok.. so...
- Pull you in with the power of gravity
Does not 'suck' you in with the power of a vacuum...
About right?
You fall into gravity wells, they don't suck you.
Best way to understand is to get the mental image of spacetime as a 3d sheet like grid, where each object pushes down on it and creates a pit, or well. The bigger the object the deeper the well, and the more force you will need to stop yourself from sliding towards the object and propelling yourself back up the slope.
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