Hoki

Well an even horizon is just where light can't escape right? And IMO that makes it where light ceases to be useful as a medium for observation. By that I mean we observe things with our eyes, but if light stops being useful inside of the event horizon.. then its services are no longer required. Sort of like our ears when underwater, not very useful except when using radios, microphones, and headphones. At that point maybe you would want to have gravity measuring technology calculating an image and electrically piping it into your visual cortex, so that you can actually visualize what is going on. I has no idea on what the images of the inside of the EH would look like.

Thanks guys, that clears up a few things. I also don't know what pulling apart a singularity means. I thought a black hole eats matter by pulling it apart in bite sized chunks, but thats probably not required.

Thanks ajb! Again I must pretense that I am no scientist, I'm either quoting or misquoting stuff I've read online or watched on science programs. Never heard of a ring singularity, more stuff for me to read into. I keep forgetting about the regulating effect of approaching the speed of light! Its like limits in math. You can approach the speed of light, even if you accelerate infinitely, time will just keep dilating. What is the alternative to the center of a black hole if not a singularity? Are there other states of matter that can have enough gravity that it would prevent light from escaping? Like a dense, fused ball of particles? As for the merging part, assuming they are two singularities merging, both with infinite density. Is it possible to draw matter/energy out of a singularity after its already gone inside? Thats part of what I cant wrap my head around. A singularity is believed to only be able to eat so much matter/energy at a time, and another infinitely dense singularity is probably more than another singularity could hope to swallow at once. Now I'm making the assumption that a black hole has to gobble up another black hole and cannot simply absorb into each other. Quasars have this overfeeding problem I believe. They can't eat everything that's being served to them all at once, so they spit out huge jets. Getting lost upside down in thought again.. just gonna write questions as they come to me. 1) Is a singularity an infinitely dense particle or can it be infinitely dense and made up of pure energy? 2) When matter is consumed by a singularity I've heard that it is theorized to enter at the speed of light or near the speed of light. Would this mean that everything that is consumed is first pulled in as pure energy? 3) Can matter/energy ever be pulled or extracted from a singularity after being consumed, even by another singularity that is much more massive? I don't know the math involved in black holes, but if something is infinitely dense, I would just assume you would need infinite pull in order to pull energy or matter out of it. 4) Could two or more orbiting singularities in an unstable orbit slingshot a blackhole out of a galaxy like stars can? 5) IF one of the merging singularities must be pulled apart in order for the other more massive singularity to eat it, would the less massive one blow up, or would it slowly leech away matter like binary stars do?

First and foremost, I am NOT a scientist or math person. I just watch science stuff on TV. The reason I even have these questions is because I was day dreaming and ended up on a logic path that singularities orbit each other at the speed of light or faster and thus travel back through time. DERP 1) I have the understanding that a black hole has a singularity at the center which is a massive object of infinite density. Does this mean that the singularity has no measurable size? I just assumed that it has no size I didn't see that on TV or anything. 2) IF a singularity has no size, then when we talk about a black hole being supermassive or large, we're only talking about it's event horizon correct? This assumes a singularity has no size. :\ 3) IF 1 and 2 are true, then when we talk about black holes merging/combining, are we talking about two singularities merging or are we talking about 2 or more singularities orbiting each other but sharing the same event horizon bubble thing. And by that I mean the singularities aren't merged but their combined gravity make it so that light cannot escape the same spherical area. 4) I have the understanding that as two objects orbit each other more closely, the faster the orbit becomes, and the slower the two object approach each other. Is this correct? 5) Assuming 5 is correct and 1 is correct, wouldn't two sizeless objects just continue to orbit each other forever? 6) Assuming 6 is correct, is it possible for two singularities to orbit each other at the speed of light? 7) And then finally, assuming all of the above is correct, is it possible for two singularities to orbit each other faster than the speed of light? 6 and 7 seem to break the laws of physics and since singularities do exist in this universe, I must be getting something very wrong somewhere.