[Buzz]

Originally Posted by Ron61

Buzz,

We agree on that part for sure and I think most of what you posted will turn out to be factual so far as we now know. I have always had a problem with there being two entrances into a black hole as it just seemed strange to me and that was why I tried to use the tornado description to explain how I sort of envisioned one.

Edit: I am using the tornado just as an example of how I would envision a black hole looking if you could stand off and see the thing from top to bottom. The end of the tornado funnel would be the singularity, except in a tornado if you were at that end you would likely be pulled up and into the funnel and not down into it like in a black hole.


Ron

The thing about a black hole is that it pulls in towards singularity from ALL directions not just one so a good way to picture it would be as a central core with an extremely strong gravitational pull surrounded by a spherical dark "zone of no return" (like a planet's atmosphere for example) the outer boundary of which is the event horizon. The "hole" moniker is a bit misleading as it paints the picture of falling through an opening "down" towards a bottom or end. The reason it was originally called a hole is because when you look in its direction, you don't see a distinct object or mass, but because it basically imprisons all light, it is invisible and actually appears as a "black hole" against the background in the field of view. So in actuality, scientists were tipped off to the existence of black holes not because they saw one, but because they didn't!