What's faster- Light or a Black hole

What is faster- Light or a Black hole.
If light from a star just about to get eaten by a black hole is faster then why can't it escape.

Just curious.

 

Time slows down in a black hole i believe.
Thats all i know.

 

David Weir.

 

after last nights chicken vindaloo,

my brown hole.

 

the question wasn't who's the biggest *-hole. :smiley-laughing002:

 

Black Holes and the Speed of Light

Black holes almost certainly exist, and one of their basic properties is that they trap light. However, it is also true that nothing exceeds the speed of light. In fact, the theoretical prediction of black holes is due to the General Theory of Relativity, which is built on the principle that the speed of light in a vacuum is constant. The analogy of a cannonball falling back to Earth with the trapping of light in a black hole is only a crude and suggestive one that is not correct at a fundamental level (for one thing, the cannonball has mass, but light does not; it turns out that this difference is critical, because massless particles MUST travel at light velocity, but massive particles CANNOT travel at light velocity).
To understand fully why a black hole can trap light but the light still always travels at constant velocity requires an understanding of the General Theory of Relativity, but the essential point is that the black hole curves spacetime back on itself, so that all paths in the interior of the black hole lead back to the singularity at the center, no matter which direction you go (an analogy in two dimensions is that no matter which direction you go on the surface of the Earth in a "straight line" (what mathematicians call a "geodesic" or a "great circle"), you never escape the Earth but instead return to the same point. Imagine extending that analogy to the 4 dimensions of spacetime and you have a rough explanation for why light travels at light speed, but cannot escape the interior of a black hole.

 

Diahorrea is faster than light

The other night I jumped out of bed because I had stomach pains
I flicked the light switch on and before the light came on I had * myself.:icon_mrgree

Pretty conclusive

 

No

 

You should have just shat the bed and saved yourself the effort.

 

Trust me it was no effort, no pushing at all:icon_mrgreen:

 

I would have thought a black hole is faster. Given that light cannot escape it.

 

...aye, but................................................but.............................but....

 

That's why i started this thread. I thought that too.
Given that light cannot escape a black hole then gravity must be stronger than light. Or at least the energy making up the gravity of the black hole is stronger than the energy that makes up light.

 

Too much star trek for you. :icon_mrgreen:

 

A black hole will move through space in the same way that the star that if formed form moved. It doesn't move like light so there's no comparison in the speed. You could compare it to a star but their speed will vary depending on the gravitational pull of it's location in the universe.