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pervect said:I don't see why this should vanish.
I was mistaken. See my response to @PAllen in post #25.
pervect said:I don't see why this should vanish.
PeterDonis said:I was mistaken. See my response to @PAllen in post #25.
1. The mass will be concentrated at the singularity. 2. Simple Newtonian mechanics apply. If the mass of the black hole is a million times the mass of the star, the black hole will hardly move at all. If it's three times the mass of the star it will move substantially.KurtLudwig said:What happens to the inertia of a mass falling into a black hole? I am not even sure if I frame the questions correctly. Will this mass reach the center or is mass distributed within the black hole? Is the singularity the whole volume of the black hole or is it a point in the center? If a large star falls into a medium-sized black hole, will the black hole move towards the star, due to gravitational attraction, or will the impact move the black hole away, due to the inertia of the star?