Is It Possible to Have Infinite Mass?

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Infinite mass is a misconception associated with black holes, which actually possess infinite density rather than infinite mass. Black holes do not consume everything around them; for instance, if the Sun were replaced by a black hole, Earth's orbit would remain unchanged. Light does not become infinite through reflection or refraction, as each split beam is weaker than the original. The discussion highlights the importance of understanding the physics behind black holes and light behavior. Overall, the nature of black holes and their gravitational influence is often misunderstood.
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if its possible to have infinite mass(a black hole) is there something to make infinite mass? If not wouldn't a black hole eventually gobble everything up? If there is what would happen if they mixed? If so It would produce mass chaos distroying everything.Could light be somewhat infinite?? Because it can be continously spead when it gets reflected or refracted
 
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It seems you have a lot of questions about the physics of light, gravity, and black holes. Here, read the wiki article on black holes and you will see that black holes do not have an infinite mass. Also, light does not spread when it gets reflected or refracted, it merely takes a different path. If a beam of light splits, each beam is weaker than the original, so nothing is really lost.

Also, if you still have any non-specific questions about BHs in particular you should do a search here, there has been a lot of discussion of them recently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole
 


The reason why a black hole does not gobble up everything is because it does not have infinate mass but infinate density, this is a common misconception. A good example of this is that if you turned the sun into a black hole the Earth would remain in the exact same orbit it had before.
 
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