• Question: would years past on earth if you were in a black hole for a few seconds even though you would die after

    Asked by 556sptm49 to Ollie on 6 Mar 2018.
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      Alexander Burke answered on 6 Mar 2018:


      Yes. Where there are regions of immense gravity, time slows down. If I was to go near a black hole then time, for me, would carry on as normal but from your perspective, my time would be slow down. If I was to orbit around a black hole for a year or two (this is dependant on loads of factors I don’t want to go into!) then somehow get back to earth I would find that the earth will have advanced hundreds or thousands of years! This is assuming that I’m not killed when I’m close to the black hole. Good question!!

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