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Old 24-07-2016, 08:46 PM
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Originally Posted by xelasnave View Post
Steven if objects are frozen in time, if I have it correct, would this not mean that we should "see" a collection of various stars or gas that have fallen into a black hole over the life time of that black hole?

Alex
Alex,

The closer the object is to the event horizon, the greater the gravitational redshift.
While it may take an infinite time for the object to free fall to the event horizon to a distant observer, in reality the observer will never see the object frozen at the event horizon as the emitted photons are infinitely redshifted.

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