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Re:The Largest Black Hole in the Known Universe by wyager on Saturday June 14, 2014 @11:15PM (#7894257)
I believe black holes can be treated as normal astronomical objects outside their event horizon. The weird singularity behavior only applies within the event horizons.
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Re:The Largest Black Hole in the Known Universe by carljoseph on Sunday June 15, 2014 @05:33AM (#7894868)
This is pretty much true. You could replace our sun with a black hole of the same mass, and nothing would change in terms of planet's orbits.

The image of a black hole "sucking" things in like a vacuum cleaner is hugely incorrect. I think this perception comes about from the funnel image we often see representing black holes.

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Re:The Largest Black Hole in the Known Universe by alixaxel on Monday June 16, 2014 @11:22AM (#7899519)
A black hole with the same mass as the sun wouldn't be a black hole at all, would it?
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