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This is part two of a series of figures designed to help explain how a black hole distorts the casual structure of the space time around it. The figures are essentially cartoonized versions of Finkelstein diagrams (see: Hawking, Stephen W.; George Ellis (1973) The large scale structure of space-time, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 152 ISBN: 0-521-09906-4. OCLC: 16002677. ). The diagrams have been stripped of their technical details as to emphasize the essence of the argument.

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current08:20, 15 March 2011409 × 106 (47 KB)AvsaChanges: the black hole is not a circle, but a straight area – this is a graphical representation of time. A black hole is not circular in the dimension of time, otherwise a 1-lightyear radius black hole would only exist for a year. Also added a very li

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