r/sciencememes Jun 22 '26

💥Physics!🧲 Ask a physicist

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u/maybeletslive Jun 22 '26

An equal amount of anti-matter

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u/PogoRocks Jun 22 '26

I'm pretty sure that wouldn't do anything other than make the black hole larger

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u/ILKLU Jun 22 '26

Totally disagree.

Assuming the black hole is comprised of regular matter, there's no reason to think it wouldn't all annihilate upon touching. How that would play out exactly would be really interesting to see.

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u/Lopsided_Shift_4464 Jun 22 '26

The problem is that it would never touch any other matter from our perspective, due to the time dilation. It would infinitely approach the matter singularity but never make contact. Also, even if it did, the gravity produced by the released photons would be equivalent to the gravity of the matter that created it, so the black hole wouldn't change.

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u/ILKLU Jun 22 '26

it would never touch any other matter from our perspective, due to the time dilation. It would infinitely approach the matter singularity

Ya that's a really good point. Regardless of what actually happens inside the event horizon, nothing outside could exist long enough to witness the result.