Thread: Can material actually reach the event horizon?
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Old 19-February-2006, 03:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Disinfo Agent
It doesn't take an infinite amount of time for the chunk of matter, only for an outside observer!
However, we ARE outside observers, so from OUR point of view no black hole even finished collapsing yet! As far as we are concerned, all the material that ever fell into any black hole, including the original star, is still hovering just outside event horizon.
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