Name: Ron Knop
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Question:
If a "black hole" were to eventually "fill up", would the result be a
reoccurrence of the "big bang"?
Replies:
Matter inside a black hole is already crushed beyond comprehension (at least
for star-sized black-holes - for galaxy-sized black holes things might not
be quite so crushed) so there is plenty of room inside there for all that
totally squashed matter. However, matter is supposed to leak out of black
holes through something called "Hawking radiation", named after Stephen
Hawking. It has also been speculated that some kind of recurrence of the
"big bang" may occur on the "other side" of black holes, but I think this
is speculation that goes way beyond our theories.
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