• octoperson@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    That’s not known. Relativity predicts that they shrink to an infinitely dense singularity, but we don’t know that relativity is still applicable in that environment. They could shrink to a small but finite volume, or they could stay at uniform density within the sphere of the event horizon (which would make SMBHs less dense than water), or space could just stop at the event horizon and there wouldn’t even be an inside. And all those possibilities would look identical from the outside.