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Re:Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Flared, Growing 75 Times as B... by Rapzid on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @08:06PM (#20691488)
I believe that because the speed of light is the same in any inertial frame reference.. If you were two light minutes away from the event in the SMBHs inertial frame at the event and traveling toward the earth at a speed sufficient to reach it at the same time as the light from the event.. You would arrive at the earth at the same time as the light but only 2 minutes will have passed in your frame of reference?
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Re:Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Flared, Growing 75 Times as B... by shkkmo on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @09:20PM (#20691906)
> but only 2 minutes will have passed in your frame of reference?

Only 2 minutes would have passed for the SMBH in your frame of reference (but 52k years would have passed for earth in your frame of reference)

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