The black hole is an absolutely black sphere 185 kilometers in circumference but with no calculable radius. The mass approaches (but does not reach?) a point. No information leaves the sphere which has a strong magnetic field and an angular momentum "corresponding to" (p. 313) a rapid spin. (Does this mean that it in fact spins?) Interstellar ions and electrons almost completely neutralize the black hole's electric charge.
Through gravity, electric charge, magnetic field and angular momentum, the black hole continues to interact with the universe outside its event horizon. Occasionally, when a particle pair is spontaneously created in the surrounding vacuum, one particle falls into the black hole whereas the other not only recedes but is (somehow) energized. Thus, the black holes radiates (ok) and also evaporates (why?) although too slowly to matter.
Atoms and dust accelerating inward collide and emit photons. An accretion disc of plasma circles and falls into the black hole whereas matter pulled toward its magnetic poles is hurled outward. The disc is a blue-white ring with billowing waves, spume-like flares, flaming coils, shuddering convulsions and chaotic havoc.
Envoy orbits at ten million kilometers.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I sure as heck can't pretend to UNDERSTAND black holes! That phenomenon brings home to us how much of the universe is still beyond our comprehension.
Ad astra! Sean
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