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the claim
The size of a black hole increases as it accretes matter and energy
the verdict
COMMON KNOWLEDGE
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The increase in a black hole's mass through the accretion of matter and energy is a direct consequence of general relativity and black hole thermodynamics, making it a foundational and observational certainty that requires no citation.

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The claim is a fundamental physical principle following directly from mass-energy equivalence and black hole mechanics (such as the increase in mass and area upon capturing matter/energy). It is trivially true by definition and observation in physics, placing it under common knowledge.

Everything we examined (12)
  1. DFT exchange: sharing perspectives on the workhorse of quantum chemistry and materials science.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  2. Linking black hole growth with host galaxies: The accretion-stellar mass relation and its cosmic evolutionpeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  3. The Thermodynamics of Black Holes.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  4. NGC 4051: Black hole mass and photon index-mass accretion rate correlationpeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  5. Radiation hydrodynamical simulations of super-Eddington mass transfer and black hole growth in close binariespeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  6. Rotating stars in relativity.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  7. Boosting Supermassive Black Hole Growth in the Early Universe by Fuzzy Dark Matter Solitons.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  8. The Growth of Stellar Mass Black Hole Binaries Trapped in the Accretion Disks of Active Galactic Nucleipeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  9. Classification of Near-Horizon Geometries of Extremal Black Holes.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  10. Continuum and Discrete Initial-Boundary Value Problems and Einstein's Field Equations.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  11. Cosmic ray feedback in galaxies and galaxy clusters: A pedagogical introduction and a topical review of the acceleration, transport, observables, and dynamical impact of cosmic rays.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  12. Probing supermassive black hole growth and its dependence on stellar mass and star-formation rate in low-redshift galaxiespeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
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first checked05 Aug 2026
judged → COMMON KNOWLEDGE · 9505 Aug 2026
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