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Supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is approaching the cosmic speed limit, dragging space-time along with it (www.livescience.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Can it hit the speed of light? And what even happen if it does?

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (4 children)

As far as we understand today, nothing that has mass can travel at the speed of light because it would require infinite energy to reach that speed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Black holes have infinite density, so they have a good start on breaking some rules.

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