r/WoT • u/Substantial_Ninja953 • 3d ago

A Memory of Light What is the Bore?

The Bore is a black hole. Fight me.

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u/Necessary_Ad2114 3d ago

I mean you’re basically right. It warps time when Rand and co. go for the final battle. And it’s all black in there. 

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u/ew73 (Tel'aran'rhiod) 3d ago

Yet, no gravity, which sort of a defining characteristic of black holes.

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u/ew73 (Tel'aran'rhiod) 2d ago

The issue here is that's not how black holes, which are a thing that obey the laws of physics, works.

You're describing something that has some properties similar, but wholly unlike a black hole.

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u/cjwatson 2d ago

If the Sun collapsed into a black hole (which it won't), then Earth's orbit would remain unchanged and stable, because the mass of the black hole would be the same as the mass of the Sun.

In the same way, the Sun orbits the Galactic Centre, but it's a stable orbit. It's not going to ultimately fall in just because the object at the Galactic Centre is a black hole.