Re: can anything at all fall into a black hole?

From: Theo Wollenleben (alpha0x89_at_yahoo.de)
Date: 11/20/04 

Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 15:01:41 +0100

plex wrote:
> I wonder if anything can fall into a black hole rather than just stay at
> the event horizon.
>
> According to general relativity the curvation of space-time, when approching
> the event horizon,gets infinite.

This statement is wrong. Curvature is finite on the event horizon. It
gets infinite when approaching the center of the black hole.

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