why don't objects moving near speed of lite become black holes

Subject: why don't objects moving near speed of lite become black holes

Date: Sat Jan 10 11:45:27 2009
Posted by james
Grade level: undergrad School: colorado university
City: boulder State/Province: co Country: us
Area of science: Physics
ID: 1231613127.Ph

Message:


according to special relativity mass increases with speed.  do objects moving
near the speed of light relative to me look like black holes but would not look
like a black hole to someone in the same frame of reference as the object?  this
seems paradoxical that for some observers an object is a black hole but not for
others.   
thank you
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