• Question: How do black holes exist as there is infinite time dilation so no matter will enter it causing it to evaporate due to Hawking radiation?

    Asked by danielcropper to Derek, Elaine, Heather, Keith, Bimpe on 27 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Heather Eyre

      Heather Eyre answered on 27 Jun 2013:


      The way I understand it the time dilation refers to what the observer can see, so that matter will fall in but it is just so dilated (from the observational point of view) that it looks like nothing is falling in (the even horizon will be effectively masked by the time dilation and red-shift).

      If you were actually there (and you could actually survive it without being stretched into oblivion) then I think the time would feel (to you) like it was passing normally.

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