James Webb Space Telescope Reveals That Most Galaxies Rotate Clockwise

Re:James Webb Space Telescope Reveals That Most Galaxies Rot... by jfengel on Monday March 31, 2025 @10:53PM (#43542343)

The trick is that bigger black holes are less dense. Supermassive black holes can have the density of water. If the universe is gravitationally closed, it would have the density of... well, just look up at night. (Actually much less than that; you see more stars because you're inside a galaxy.)

The density makes the scale recursion less mysterious.

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Re:James Webb Space Telescope Reveals That Most Galaxies Rot... by drusenko on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @01:56AM (#43543299)

That’s interesting! When you are referring to density, are you referring to average density within the event horizon? Isn’t most (effectively all) matter concentrated in the singularity? Would love to hear you elaborate on this thought further.

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Re:James Webb Space Telescope Reveals That Most Galaxies Rot... by jfengel on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @08:15AM (#43545837)

We can't really talk about what's inside a black hole. From outside, it has a volume and a mass, and that's all there is to know.

We can say that any particle inside the horizon is inevitably headed to the center. (That's why we can't say any more: no other information can escape.) That does lead to a problem in that all of the mass would be concentrated at a single point at the center, whose density is division-by-zero.

But I wouldn't put too much weight on that. We already know from quantum mechanics that there isn't really any such thing as a "point". The math is still a problem, but the solution almost certainly lies in that direction.

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