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From: alan@drivax.UUCP (Alan Fargusson)
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Subject: Re: Procyon's Promise
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> As I understand it, black holes can be made of matter or anti-matter,
> or whatever, but it doesn't matter.  From outside of the black hole
> all we can detect is its mass, its charge, and its spin.  We can't tell
> whether the stuff inside originally went in as matter, antimatter,
> energy, or whatever.  Antimatter black holes might exist, but we couldn't
> know if they were.
>                                          Mark T. Draughn

I have always been a little confused about matter/anti-matter stuff. Does
anti-matter have negative mass? If it does then wouldn't a black hole made
of anti-matter have negative mass?

I'm a programmer jim, not a physicist. :-)
-- 

Alan Fargusson.

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