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Comment by phn

So, layman's question about black holes, almost 100% sci-fi derived.

Starting from the time mechanics shown in, e.g., Interstellar. If when you're near a massive black hole time passes differently (more time passes away form the hole, so to speak), couldn't it be said that the regions near and far the black hole are drifting apart in the "time dimension"?

If we take the black hole to be an extreme case of that, isn't the black hole a region that is drifting away so "fast" that light isn't fast enough to reach "us" on the outside?

In that case, there would be no paradox, right? Whatever is inside the black hole is still there, but with no way to communicate.

parent phn 5 years ago

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