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Black Hole Devours Star

the post:
NASA just recorded a black hole devour a Sun-sized star for the first time ever.

my comment:

The odd thing about this act of devouring a star is the size of the black hole never changes, no matter how much it consumes.

In relativity, a black hole is maximum spacetime curvature down to a geometric point in the 4-D coordinate system being distorted. A point in geometry has no physical size, neither do lines or planes. Nothing in a coordinate system is real; it is used for describing positions. To excuse the misuse of geometry concepts in physics this geometric point is called a singularity so this 'thing' can have mass in it with infinite density.
Because a point has no physical size the black hole, disregarding physics, suggests the mass causing this 4-D coordinate system disruption is also collapsed into this geometric point.
A non-physical geometric point has an infinite capacity and so an infinite amount of mass can be proposed as being in this non-physical geometric point.
The black hole size of zero never changes. If this seems unbelievable then neither is the black hole.

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