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Above, when I compared falling into a black hole to falling into the future, that wasn't a vague analogy; the future timelike direction inside a black hole *is* towards the centre. We don't get any light from the future, but there's nowhere in our field of vision where we expect such light and get blackness instead; the same goes for the absence of light from a black hole.
If we're a little ways outside a black hole, facing it, then the light we see will be light left over from before its formation, light that almost fell in but didn't quite, light that's been moving away ever so slowly (relative to a distant observer) as it fights the gravitational pull of the collapsed star behind it, until we finally come along and see it. There's no such thing as the direction from the black hole, only the direction from a little before the black hole, and that's what we're looking at.
You can still tell that the black hole is there, but from the distortion, not from any absence.
TobyBartels /
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2024-11-22 08:10:12
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