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- From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
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- Subject: Re: Black holes again (was Re: Graviton beams?)
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 23:07:59 GMT
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- franl@centerline.com (Fran Litterio) writes:
-
- >By definition, objects cannot orbit the singularity once within the
- >event horizon. All paths (not just all geodesics, but _all_paths_) in
- >spacetime lead to the singularity.
-
- This is not quite true; it's just all *timelike* paths (which, of
- course, are the only ones you can follow). This is just in a
- Schwarzschild hole, too. You can avoid hitting the singularity
- in ideal Kerr or Reissner-Nordstrom holes, though in a real
- situation instabilities would probably seal off these routes.
-
- >2. The closest orbit around a black hole is in fact the event horizon
- > (where photons orbit) -- any closer orbit would require an orbital
- > speed greater than that of light. Not even photons can orbit the
- > singularity within the event horizon.
-
- The circular photon orbit is *outside* the event horizon, at an
- r coordinate of 1.5 times the Schwarzschild radius for a Schwarzschild
- hole (unless my memory of GR class has failed me yet again).
- Orbits are quite distorted from the Keplerian ellipse in
- such a situation; if you tried to send a photon into an elliptical
- orbit by aiming it from the circular-orbit radius at a lower angle,
- it would just spiral into the hole.
- --
- Matt McIrvin
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