Black holes don’t have a mass of their own.

Meir Gilady
2 min readJul 8, 2023

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I contend that black holes do not possess their own mass.

The center of gravity of an entire galaxy represents a virtual point towards which all stars within the galaxy are drawn. This central point is, in fact, the black hole, as it is where the concentrated gravitational force of the entire galaxy is focused.

As an example, let’s consider Earth. When calculating its gravitational force, we treat its mass as if it were concentrated at its center. Due to Earth’s elliptical shape, we prefer launching rockets from the equator, where the gravitational force is weakest.

The same principle applies to galaxies. The center of the Milky Way, for instance, represents solely the center of gravity of the galaxy, devoid of any mass of its own.

If black holes possessed mass and accumulated matter over time, the gravitational force could increase to the point where all matter in the universe would be “swallowed” by black holes.

Additionally, we observe two jets of matter being expelled from black holes at a 90-degree angle, as captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. The black hole acts merely as a massive accelerator that attracts matter and propels it back into space. These jets subsequently condense matter into spherical structures, which then ignite similarly to a thermonuclear reactor. And a new star was born. this process takes billion of years and black holes recycle the matter in the universe helping spread all elements everywhere.

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