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The singularity of a black hole is not a place at its centre but a moment in your future: falling in, you run out of time rather than out of room.

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  1. Sean Carroll

    Theoretical physicist at Johns Hopkins University

    Remember space and time are parts of one unified space-time, the location of the singularity in the black hole is not the middle of space, but our future. It is a moment of time. It is like a big crunch.

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