Question:
Do black holes violate Newton's First Law of Thermodynamics?
anonymous
2008-11-30 17:02:08 UTC
What happens to matter when it is vacuumed into the a black hole? Does matter become a part of the black hole itself? Does the matter just disappear? I understand that there is probably no solid proof to back up any conjecture, but what ideas have been formulated in the past? Which is most believable?

Does the black hole get larger in volume as matter gets vacuumed into it? Is it possible that Newton's Laws of Thermodynamics may be violated by black hole activity?
Three answers:
kasab
2008-11-30 18:07:08 UTC
I have never heard of Newton's Laws of Thermodynamics !!!!
violinner
2008-11-30 17:16:29 UTC
When matter falls into a black hole, it does not just disappear. It becomes part of the black hole, and the event horizon becomes larger from the additional mass. Newton's laws of thermodynamics do not get violated. Steven Hawking has demonstrated that black holes eventually give up their mass.



Please review this excellent description of black holes:

http://www.astrosociety.org/education/publications/tnl/24/24.html
Mel-am Meru
2008-11-30 17:08:09 UTC
I think we are on the other side of a black hole and every black hole has another universe on the other side. If you saw all the universes as a whole they would be turned in and turned out; like the aveoli of the lungs and looped around. That is my theory. So call me crazy.


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