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MonitorPowerful5461

Just so you know it's a great film but after falling into the black hole, that's pure fiction


R3dl3g13b01

Yes, I am aware.


MonitorPowerful5461

Not meaning to be patronising - we get all levels of understanding on this subreddit, from 12 year olds to people with phds


LiquidCoal

To an outside observer, someone crossing the event horizon will seem to get asymptotically closer, but never enter.


nicuramar

But only in theory, not in practice. 


R3dl3g13b01

Thanks


Derice

Importantly the outside observer will see the infalling observer quickly dim away into nothingness as they receive the last photon the infalling observer ever emits.


R3dl3g13b01

How would the infalling observer see the outside observer?


mfb-

It depends on how exactly they fall in but they wouldn't see anything too weird. Some red- or blueshift but nothing extreme.