Recent content by Matthew Goldman

Thanks everyone for replying. I feel like I have things a bit straighter in my head now. Particularly the idea of free falling in. Cheers, Matt

The force in the centre of the earth, assuming it was a perfect sphere and the density was the same everywhere, would be zero as the pull from all directions would cancel. Why isn't it like this for a black hole? Surely the forces from each direction should cancel leaving zero resultant force at...