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Is the universe is expanding from a black hole or contracting into a black hole? How could you tell the difference ?

There should be no difference from an observer where everything is traveling out of a black hole and an observer where everything is traveling into a black hole. Both would observe an accelerating and expanding universe do to space/time dilation.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 years ago
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    Quite so.

    Everything is relative.

  • 5 years ago

    The universe, could be expanding from a 11-D black hole.

  • 5 years ago

    If everything was traveling into a black hole, the observer would see distant galaxies getting CLOSER together.

    If everything was traveling out of a black hole (or into it), the observer would see galaxies with velocities pointing away from (or toward) the black hole. Instead, we see the velocities pointing away from ... us!

    There is nothing like a universe-affecting black hole anywhere near us. Some people might think of the "Great Attractor", less than 250 million light years away. But it has a mass of less than one-billionth of the observable universe.

  • 5 years ago

    Neither. Everything is getting farther apart, but not expanding from any particular black hole. It is believed that almost every massive galaxy has a black hole at its center, and all these galaxies are separating in space.

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  • 5 years ago

    but is all the matter of the universe funneling onto a single point or expanding farther away from everything else

  • Mark G
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    Neither. It expanded from a singularity, it will continue to do so.

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