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Old 4th July 2012, 04:23 PM   #148
RecoveringYuppy
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Originally Posted by Vorpal View Post
I am. There is an ambiguity for black holes because we're taking the volume of a spatial region at some instant in time, and the 'instant in time' is frame-dependent, but allowing for some small caveats my statement was correct.
If you're applying the most common definition of volume used to compute black hole density then why aren't black hole density citations a lot closer to zero?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A*
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/304/5671/704.abstract

Neither of those density citations appear to be using a nearly infinite volume for Sagittarius A*.

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