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Do black holes have a maximum electric charge?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Limits of General Relativity

Slow moving electrons would be repelled by this thing, right? They wouldn't have enough energy essentially to get in there. We don't really know what that means. The general relativity has no solution there. It's like you try to solve the equations and you get the square root of a negative number. So now what's the radius of the event horizon? Well, we don't reallyknow, right? The general relativity basically breaks down there. It doesn't know what to predict. There's just really no prediction there.

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