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Old 4th July 2012, 05:03 PM   #154
Vorpal
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Originally Posted by RecoveringYuppy View Post
In fact, it leads to a perfectly good answer to the question that was asked by Skeptic Ginger.
I'm not in any way contradicting that large black holes can be reasonably said to have low density, since they're actually defined by the horizon and not the singularity. I'm simply saying your conclusion was even more true than you suggested.

Though the singularity itself has no volume, so in the other sense it has infinite density (or very large, since we don't know what happens before that).
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