View Single Post
  #7  
Old 24-11-2010, 10:52 PM
Robh's Avatar
Robh (Rob)
Registered User

Robh is offline
 
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Blue Mountains, Australia
Posts: 1,338
Quote:
Originally Posted by sjastro View Post
Rob,

The event horizon is independant of space-time distortion. It is a property of the time component of the Schwarzchild metric. You can create an event horizon by accelerating a clock in flat Minkowski space. The horizon itself doesn't undergo "distortion" by gravity.


Regards

Steven
Steven,

Not according to this ...
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Black_holes
Read section on Dynamical black holes. Interesting movie attached.

Regards, Rob

Last edited by Robh; 24-11-2010 at 11:02 PM.
Reply With Quote