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Listener Questions about rogue planets and black holes!

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Effect of Electromagnetism on the Black Hole

Think of the black hole as just like a big particle with a charge on it. It generates an electric field, right? You don't wonder how does the electrons electric field come out of the electron. That's just when electric charge is, it's something that generates an electric fields through space. Now assign an electric charge to the black hole, the whole thing, instead of to the electron within it. Assign it to the event horizon instead, if you like. Right? Then they need to swap real photons in order to push against each other. But those photons do not need to come from within the event horizon, right? Those photons can come from the outside the event horizon.

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