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Week 14 Lecture & Reading Discussion_Introduction to General Astronomy

Week 14 Lecture & Reading Discussion_Introduction to General Astronomy

Q Part 1: Suppose the amount of mass in a black hole doubles, does the event horizon change? If so, does it grow, shrink, or stay the same size? And what physical force limits the growth of supermassive black holes? Part 2: Assume that the distance from one edge of the Milky Way Galaxy to the other is 1 cm, with this same scale how far away is the Andromeda Galaxy? Why do astronomers believe that gravitation in the universe is dominated by dark matter?

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Considering the fact that to calculate the Schwarzchild Radius or the event horizon, the gravitational force and speed of light is constant, when the mass of the black hole is doubled and therefore, it grows, the event horizon also doubles up, and reduction in the mass will result in a change in the event horizon. Since the mass of the black hole is a finite property,