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1nfinitydividedby0 t1_jdsu1j6 wrote

What? Black holes don't have faces, they are point like objects, have no spacial orientation.

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m0le t1_jdsuhqz wrote

Not really true for regular, bog standard black holes (accretion disk and jets are non symmetric).

Really not true for spinning black holes (the majority) that have ringularities and so poles.

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1nfinitydividedby0 t1_jdsur33 wrote

Yes, accretion disk have orientation, but not black holes themselves.

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James20k t1_jdt9uql wrote

A black hole has a spin, and spins about an axis which means that you can define a direction that it is pointing fairly straightforwardly

Black holes also aren't point like objects, the interior/singularity is completely divorced from the exterior of the black hole - they are a property of spacetime itself, not an effect that arises from the singularity

Astrophysical black holes formed from stellar collapse also don't have a singularity as viewed from an external observer

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1nfinitydividedby0 t1_jdunt00 wrote

Well, there is something to your explanation. Axis is a property of direction. Yes, black holes do occupy space so they are not point like. I was wrong.

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vonstubbins t1_jdt65uq wrote

The headline is awful, but if you'd read the article you'd know it's referring to the jet of ionised matter that is ejected from the poles of a black hole.

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jerkittoanything t1_jdswuw4 wrote

Mf you about to not have a face, the only black hole that doesn't have a spacial orientation is your moms bunghole.

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Key-Cry-8570 t1_jdt04fe wrote

Gamma ray burst turns around… Am I a joke to you?

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