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Can a black hole be spiral?

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No, and I blame the fools in the media for making people think otherwise. Black holes are points in space where gravity reaches infinite levels. And, like a bubble, but for different levels, everything is spherical. Bubbles do it because the surface area is least. Blakc holes do it because the volume is filled most efficiently that way.

Furthermore, if it were, say a cube in shape, the corners of the structure would be pulled in, as there's less to support them than in a sphere.

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No, a black hole although a black hole pulls things in a circular fashion, those objects are basically just falling, just the way something on earth would fall to the ground.

Tornadoes and whirlpools pull objects in by the movement of air and water respectively. Essentially, something sucked into a tornado is blown away by the wind because, simply put, a tornado is spinning wind.

Also, things that fall into a black hole can never come back out while objects pulled into a tornado or whirlpool are just carried to another place.

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no, it is a sphere

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