• Question: is time the same in a black hole?

    Asked by Bethany to Peter on 9 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Peter Boorman

      Peter Boorman answered on 9 Nov 2016:

      Hi Bethany,

      That is an awesome question! It turns out that as you get closer and closer to a black hole, time appears to slow down for an outside observer. This means that if someone were to watch you, they would see you get slower. This is called time dilation, and is a strange property of Einstein’s theory of relativity!

      Peter

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