File:BH-no-escape-2.svg
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Summary
This is part two of a series of figures designed to help explain how a black hole distorts the casual structure of the space time around it. The figures are essentially cartoonized versions of Finkelstein diagrams (see: Hawking, Stephen W.; George Ellis (1973) The large scale structure of space-time, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 152 ISBN: 0-521-09906-4. OCLC: 16002677. ). The diagrams have been stripped of their technical details as to emphasize the essence of the argument.
The other parts are:
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| current | 16:20, 15 March 2011 | | 409 × 106 (47 KB) | wikimediacommons>Avsa | Changes: the black hole is not a circle, but a straight area – this is a graphical representation of time. A black hole is not circular in the dimension of time, otherwise a 1-lightyear radius black hole would only exist for a year. Also added a very li |
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