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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">My son is asking the following questions:
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<font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3" style="line-height: normal;">How can anything fall into a black hole, ever?</font><span style="line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"> </span></p>
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<font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3" style="line-height: normal;">I ask this question because time dilation at the event horizon is infinite. This means that an object approaching the black hole will need an infinite amount of time to pass the event
horizon (time being that of an observer, such as a telescope on Earth, not the proper time of the object falling in).</font><span style="line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"> </span></p>
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<font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3" style="line-height: normal;">This then leads to the follow up question: how can black holes form, ever?</font><span style="line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"> </span></p>
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<font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3" style="line-height: normal;">If it takes an infinite amount of time to actually get past the event horizon, how does an event horizon ever form in the first place? Take a collapsing star as an example. Wouldn’t
the in-falling matter keep slowing down as time dilation increased towards infinity (from an external observer perspective) and never actually reach the density required to form a black hole?</font><span style="line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"> </span></p>
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<font color="#000000" face="Calibri" size="3" style="line-height: normal;">Am I missing something? Please help!</font></p>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px">Norma Holowach, M.Ed <br>
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Science Department Chairperson <br>
Lakeview High School <br>
300 Hillman Drive <br>
Cortland, OH 44410 <br>
(330)637-4921 <br>
"Connecting with nature is an essential part of being alive." <br>
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