What a black hole really is...(no more Mr Event Horizon)
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If one were to park one's space ship a few thousand miles from a large black hole, what exactly would one see?
The standard answer would be a large black sphere, supposedly made up of the event horizon(leaving aside the stuff about matter forever falling towards the event horizon).
But if one were to imagine a photon leaving from just above the supposed event horizon, if would have a curved path as seen in the diagram below.
So for a person in that space ship, they would see that photon as having come along that dotted line(the tangent to the photon's real path).
So that the black hole should really appear much bigger.
Well, I would say that this is all wrong and that what one would see WOULD be the standard sized Schwarzschild radius black hole, and that it is ALREADY magnified..
What I think it is is a magnified, highly time dilated, collapsing grain of dust, the mass of several Suns(or whatever the mass).. See this old diagram I did a while ago.
I hoped that shows up.
As you should be able to see, B and C would appear on the dotted line, and as the standard theory goes, would appear to be forever falling towards the apparent event horizon.
Also, if you imagine the light leaving that grain of dust; as it gets further away, the grain of dust(black hole thing) would appear bigger, and as appearances are not just for show, they actually dictate how the universe works(information traveling along light paths), then that ball of dust being bigger would be less powerful(I think) gravitationally; and so the further that photon got from the ball of dust, the bigger it would appear(less singularity like), and the easier it would become to escape.
I think the fallacy of mainstream black hole stuff is to assume that there is already a singularity, or assume that there is definitely an event horizon.
Anyway, I made a page about it a while ago which might explain, more what I mean; well a bit more.
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