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Re:UHZ1: NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole by lumost on Monday November 06, 2023 @09:07PM (#38172271)
This assumes the mass forms a perfect sphere with no thermal oscillations or other deformities.
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Re:UHZ1: NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole by The_Colonel on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @08:31AM (#38176499)
What claim needs an assumption of being perfectly spherical?

A rotating (or merging) black hole can be deformed (non-spherical), but that doesn't stop you to calculate average density.

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Re:UHZ1: NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole by lumost on Sunday November 12, 2023 @08:03PM (#38245758)
My comment was on the the innards of the black hole as a meaningless topic. The event horizon (if observable) is likely to have an immense amount of detail on the geometry and mass distribution inside the event horizon.
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