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kyle_baron
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<font color="yellow"><br />But the photons emitted by those objects can be stored in a blackhole. <br /><br />BHs, are cosmic hard drives? Nah, I don't think so.</font><br />Ok, here's what I should have said: "But the photons emitted by those objects can be stored in a blackhole<i> until they lose all their energy.</i><br /><br />The photons emitted by an object near a blackhole are stored in the black hole for two reasons:<br /><br />1. They never leave the black hole.<br /><br />2. They are infinitly red shifted (lose energy) and appear<br /> frozen in their paths, from an observers eye near the <br /> event horizon. Red shifting = time shifting (from the <br /> present).<br /><font color="yellow"><br />I much rather believe that the energy & matter that crosses the event horizon winds up being converted back to some kind of fundamental energy at the singularity.</font><br /><br />Photons may never reach the singularity, before losing all their energy (by redshifting). And then they're gone. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font size="4"><strong></strong></font></p> </div>