{"id":247664,"date":"2024-07-25T16:45:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T16:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/25\/what-happens-at-a-black-holes-edge-it-depends-on-your-perspective\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:13:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:13:57","slug":"what-happens-at-a-black-holes-edge-it-depends-on-your-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/25\/what-happens-at-a-black-holes-edge-it-depends-on-your-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens at a black hole&#8217;s edge? It depends on your perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" alt=\"Black Hole event horizon, black hole in space attracting galaxies and asteroids surrounded by gas nebulas 3d rendering; Shutterstock ID 2182637129; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23142641\/SEI_213202009.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23142641\/SEI_213202009.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23142641\/SEI_213202009.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23142641\/SEI_213202009.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23142641\/SEI_213202009.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23142641\/SEI_213202009.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23142641\/SEI_213202009.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23142641\/SEI_213202009.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23142641\/SEI_213202009.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23142641\/SEI_213202009.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23142641\/SEI_213202009.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23142641\/SEI_213202009.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23142641\/SEI_213202009.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23142641\/SEI_213202009.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23142641\/SEI_213202009.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23142641\/SEI_213202009.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23142641\/SEI_213202009.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23142641\/SEI_213202009.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23142641\/SEI_213202009.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23142641\/SEI_213202009.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/23142641\/SEI_213202009.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2440724\" data-caption=\"\" data-credit=\"Shutterstock\/CI Photos\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>In a recent column, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26234930-200-how-the-weird-and-powerful-pull-of-black-holes-made-me-a-physicist\/\">I wrote about black holes<\/a>. A curious reader sent in a letter asking some interesting follow-up questions about topics that I didn\u2019t really have time to delve into, more specifically about the relationship between matter and a black hole, as well as what happens at the centre of it all.<\/p>\n<p>The easy answer to the second part is that we have no idea. End of column! More seriously, part of what makes black holes such interesting phenomena to study is that perspective really matters. We know that they are demarcated by a boundary known as\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26335010-100-what-happens-at-a-black-holes-edge-it-depends-on-your-perspective\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] In a recent column, I wrote about black holes. 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