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Cosmic Queries – Holographic Universe & Quasars with Charles Liu

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The Event Horizon Is Not a Disk, Right?

The event horizon is usually spherical, right? It can be toroidal if you have a lot of rotation going on in the black hole. And then what you're talking about would be more like pressure than actual, you know, a particle. He's not a patron member. And so he shouldn't be asked to. Okay. So this bit about the event horizon being a disc, Charles, I think it's just the accretion disc around the black hole that we always say. There may be some. But when you take a picture of a black hole environment, you'd actually see the event horizon in those pictures. They're actually very small. Even for example, the center of

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