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Originally Posted by korjik
It should be true, but it is also pretty irrelevant. Any situation where the distribution of matter is important would put you in a frame that is not distant, and therefor the assumption that time stops at the EH is no longer good.
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And yet it's likely that we will only ever be able to observe black holes from outside the event horizon. All the empirical data we'll ever have about them will be from afar, because an observer who got too close would never return, and any data that such an observer might gather would never reach the rest of the scientific community.
In a sense, that observer who crosses the horizon in finite time and gets to see the black hole fully formed, is what will remain forever a theoretical extrapolation.