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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] I was reading the topic about lightspeed on the Flameboard, and someone brought up the topic of black holes. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Colorful Cartman: Now, imagine an object with such an enormous concentration of mass in such a small radius that its escape velocity was greater than the speed of light. Since nothing can go faster than light, nothing could escape that object's gravitational field -- including light itself.[/QUOTE]I've never thought of black holes in terms of escape velocity before, so that gave me something to think about. However, it occurred to me that starships are capable of traveling faster than the speed of light. Would that suggest that a black hole's event horizon would not "really" trap a starship? If the escape velocity is the speed of light, then a ship would theoretically only have to jump to Warp 1.1 to escape the event horizon. (Rather than doing something as ludicrous as phasering a hole in it...) (I apologize if I gave anyone recurring nightmares about "Parallax" with this question... ;) ) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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