3-step blackhole

[stevebtaylor]

are the following steps in the formation of a blackhole generaly accepted?

1. the final chaotic stellar collapse intitiates the event.

2. the accelerated mass is imploded and converts to energy.

3. spatial contraction is the final step in making a blackhole.

[PaulS1950]

Spacial contraction is a result of the collapse of the matter into a black hole.

As I understand the collapse of a star, the iron in the core can no longer maintain the reactions necessary to hold the mass away from the core - the gravity overcomes the mass of the star. As the star collapses the lighter, outer layers of lighter materials escape into space because of the forces generated by the implosion of the core. As the core collapses the matter slips into a very small area and that causes the "hole" (actually just a warping of the fabric of space/time). As matter is absorbed into the "hole" the mass continues to grow deepening the warp of the space/time fabric.

What exists inside the black hole is unknown but I would think that the heat and pressure would change the matter by either fusing it into an extreme element or by reducing it to basic parts like individual quarks that could not join to make any elements. There is no room in a mass of that density for "orbital" particles - it would just all be pressed together in a form that is completely alien to our understanding of matter or energy. (much like what existed before the big bang) super compressed plasma comes to mind but it would have to be a near solid form of plasma.

 

Just the ramblings of an uneducated 60 year old trying to understand

[stevebtaylor]

actually, spacial contraction is in one dimension only, according to the lorentz-transformation equations and einsteins explanation. an accelerated meter stick shortens in the direction of travel, its width and height are unaffected. thus, there can be no folding of space.

there is also no blow off into space from a star collapsing to a blackhole. the key signpost of a blackhole is high-energy radiation from the orbiting cloud of original unincorporated matter.

what exists inside a blackhole could be known. the next possible state should be proposed before 'nothing' is seriously proposed.