• Question: What's at the bottom of a black hole?

    Asked by ellegorman to Aled, Ellie, Fiona, Kev, Willem on 11 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Willem Heijltjes answered on 11 Mar 2014:

      Hi Ellegorman!

      We don’t know for sure, since nobody ever went to take a look 😉 All we have is what the mathematics tells us, which is this:

      At the centre (or bottom, whatever you like!) of a black hole is a “singularity”. This is a single point in space, where all the matter of the black hole is collected. What is interesting is the fact that it is a *pointMATOMO_URL This means that it has no size at all – it’s literally a size zero!

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