Recent content by Daddo0711

mfb, I had always thought the event horizon was simply a point of demarcation defining only where the force of gravity overcomes the ability of waves/particles to escape. I can see I have misspoken in not defining "black hole" versus "singularity", though.

First time poster, more of a nerd than an academic. So virtual particles, can they pop into and out of existence inside the event horizon of a black hole? What about in the black hole itself? If nothing can escape and matter is torn apart, what happens to those quantum particles? Or maybe...