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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Trick question. Time dilation means nothing ever actually enters a black hole. It just keeps getting infinitesimally close.

What if someone pushed?

[–] bigfish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago

"are we there yet" ... "are we there yet"...

[–] crimson_iris@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not that scientifically literate, but isn't that just from the perspective of an outside observer?

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Afaik from perspective of the one falling nothing may even change as they cross into the black hole. And I think they also never reach the center in their local timeframe, but that one I can't remember

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

From your point of view yes. I guess it fades into the infrared and keeps fading away.

[–] morto@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

That just makes it a worse fate