You're conflating the space within the event horizon with the singularity at the very center. The singularity is actually the "black hole." The space within the EH is just sort of like the slide leading into it. It has mass, a charge, and rotation due to how they are formed and/or the rotation of the mass that was pulled in to become the accretion disk.

The event horizon can absolutely be measured and we have many times.

I might as well say God is at the singularity (some people probably do), it'll never be disproven.

Honestly if we found out in our lifetimes, I'd be pretty happy with any of the aforementioned outcomes.

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Posted by Korkstand

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Posted on 4/19/24 at 11:14 pm to GRTiger

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You're conflating the space within the event horizon with the singularity at the very center.

Yes, intentionally. I even asked the question what difference does it make?

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The singularity is actually the "black hole."

I'd say the singularity is the singularity, the event horizon is the event horizon, and the "black hole" is the combo. But whatever floats your boat.

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The space within the EH is just sort of like the slide leading into it. It has mass, a charge, and rotation due to how they are formed and/or the rotation of the mass that was pulled in to become the accretion disk.

Ok.

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The event horizon can absolutely be measured and we have many times.

Did I suggest otherwise?

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I might as well say God is at the singularity (some people probably do), it'll never be disproven.

I could say there's a bologna sandwich at the singularity and it would be more credible given that we have evidence that a bologna sandwich exists and thus could possibly cross an event horizon to join the other bologna sandwiches.

This post was edited on 4/19/24 at 11:16 pm

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