11ac1064_ions___Astronomy___Black_Holes__Question
[Date Answered] October 13, 2009 [Questioner (age, location)] Phil (ct,usa) [Answer] An explicit relationship between the size of a black hole and the energy it has absorbed has been recently published. See this article for a discussion on this topic. [Question] 
Scientists say that matter in a black hole gets crushed out of existence. If that is true then how can a black hole grow? Matter must remain in existence to have an affect in our universe, and thereby adding to the mass of the black hole causing it to grow.
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