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cholmdomskyyesterday at 5:12 PM1 replyview on HN

Can magnetic fields escape, if their lines intersect the event horizon of a black hole?


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muvlonyesterday at 9:44 PM

No, a classic GR black hole does not have its own magnetic field. It can have electric charge, along with mass and spin, but that's it.

There is a somewhat fringe alternative idea called a MECO, which can have a magnetic field. Unlike some of the other fringe black hole alternatives, this one at least produces falsifiable predictions.

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