What would happen falling into a black hole?

Question

From what I understand, if someone was falling into a black hole and someone else was orbiting the thing, the person orbiting from a safe distance would observe the faller move slower and slower as he approached the event horizon, but would never actually be seen going past the event horizon. Would this mean that the person falling into the hole would see time move faster and faster around him, and see thousands of years over a short period of time? The more I think the more this seem like a paradox, so Im probably wrong. Correct me if I am.

Answer 1

Objects that fall into a black hole are "spaghettified". If a person is falling in feet first, feels a stronger gravitational pull on the feet than the head, so it is streatched apart.

Answer 2

All of the answers you received so far are very good but I think it is Santa Claus who answered closest to your question.

Time dilatation, indeed. The second 'twins paradox' goes this way: One twin lives near the sea and the other on the top of a mountain. At the end of their life, one will be a fraction of a second older than the other because living at different levels of gravitation.

It means that, although it can't be actually measured, one twin would see with binoculars his brother aging slower while the other would see his brother aging faster.

If we now extend the principle to the gravitational field of a black hole and twins on each sides of the event horizon, yes - it would happen as you say: One would see the other becoming motionless and the other would see the first one aging and his remains floating for thousands of years.

But ... that would assume that it is indeed physically possible for humans to endure those conditions, which I think it doesn't so all this must remain purely theoretical.

Answer 3

firstly, there are rumours about gravity found in the black hole

Actually, its scientifically proven that the black hole is like an ordinary hole in a paper.

If u fall into it, u will come out through the other side

but u will come out dead and crushed.

because, the gravity is so high that the gravity's power and break even the strongest of steels.

When this happens, u are instantly dead.

this is why no man has ever REALLY found out about the mystery of the black hole.

WHAT I JUST SAID IS A THEORY BY SOME UK SCIENTISTS.

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Answer 4

Well, if we come up with enough technology to get us even close to a black without being crushed by the enormous gravity and actually go inside it(from recent theories) we go to the very bottom and hit a narrow  then become atom sized and travel through a wormhole which is connected to a white hole. some say when you pop out of the whiteholoe its a parallel universe some say you travel back/forward in time because you warped.

Answer 5

nah nah if some got sucked into one there body would be streched so high and then the body will break into a million pieces because of the strong force

Answer 6

Gravitational time dilation, thankfully, works rather intuitively.  A clock ticks more slowly as the gravitational field it's in increases.  So to the person falling in, the universe's clock would tick much faster.  Just like you said.  In theory, a person observing you falling into a black hole would see you stop just before the event horizon, but in reality it doesn't work that way, due to a number of other things happening such as doppler shift and the fact that you would probably be spiralling in at close to the speed of light.

Time dilation due to inertial reference frames is where the real paradox is.