Formation of blackholes

[JustinW]

I was thinking the other day(if you can believe it), after hearing how supernova flatten out when collapsing and then explode, emitting two jets. For some reason I thought of an analogy using two plungers being put head to head, with the handles representing the jets. If the plungers are pushed together, the heads flatten out, but when pulled apart, they form a suction/vacuum. I thought about this as it applied to a star. What if it is not the explosion or stars density collapsing that causes the blackhole, but the vacuum created by the pull of the two sides bouncing back after the explosion, that form the jets? Could a blackhole just be a place where a perfect vacuum exists? And when you think about it, the whole mass of the star is not enough to account for the seeming infinite density of the singularity. Tell me where my thinking is wrong on this and why this idea couldn't be right. Iknow it has to be wrong, but where?

Edited March 14, 2012 by JustinW