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Originally Posted by RussT
Tim, if this is true...if nothing 'appears' to cross the event horizon, as seen from earth, then how do we 'see' black holes feeding?
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We never see the black hole, we see the accretion disk-- material on the way to the event horizon. We could never see inside the event horizon anyway. But note that the gravity is contributed by all the gas that is near the event horizon, it doesn't matter if it's in the hole yet or not.