A hundred starship captains, bored with life in the Federation, decide to form a line of ships and plunge straight into an enormous spherically symmetrical black hole - one right after the other.
The black hole is so large that the tidal forces don't destroy them as they cross the horizon. What does the 50th captain see, the moment their starship crosses the horizon?
(1/n)
John Carlos Baez /
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2024-11-25 19:52:20
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2024-11-25 19:52:20Event JSON
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