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I dont understand why ever one thinks black holes circular ?
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I dont understand why ever one thinks black holes circular ?
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you could still spin around and be a different shape maybe you could slam the top of that circle it would a half circle with wave on it and a shore line
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The sphere is the shape that minimizes gravitational potential - ie any other shape is more energetic and can/will decay to the sphere (things tend towards the lowest energy state). Some models of black holes spin - so I guess that an oblate distortion would occur - but the maths of being sure on this is way beyond me. I am not sure I can follow the second half of your question.
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Nobody has ever seen a black hole. It's widely hypothesised that they are point like. Does a point have a shape?
I think what the OP means is something like this.
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaHLwla2WiI
but the "surface" of a black hole isn't real, there's nothing there to "splash"
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I dont understand why ever one thinks black holes circular ?
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That must be a space bubble, as I've never been able to make a bubble of water that stable.
I was thinking of the Solar System Heliosphere, based on the sun's movement through space.
However, apparently that model is now being revised.
See Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosphere
Anyway, a sphere is a minimum energy. In fact, planets and moons over a certain size all coalesce into spheres.
Of course, our Earth isn't a perfect sphere either... it has a bulge in the middle.
The black hole is likely spinning, and not all forces around the black hole will be uniform.
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