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Old August 26th 05 posted to sci.physics
Ian Parker
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Default entropy of the pre-big-bang medium?

Black holes for example, while having themselves lower entropy than environment,
are the largest catalysts of entropy increase because ~40% of matter
falling into them is converted into light.


I may be a little bit pedantic but do you mean light or gravitational
waves. If a mass falls into a static BH 50% of the mass is converted
into gravitational waves and 50% of it increases the mass of the BH.

A spinning BH is extremely interesting. Here up to 80% of rest mass
energy may go into gas jets. This is the main energy source of abnormal
galaxies.

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