Re:In a photo of a black hole, a possible key to mysteries
by credit_guy on Friday June 05, 2020 @08:22AM
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So, maybe someone can explain in more concrete terms. The distance from us to the supermassive black hole in the center of the galaxy is 25k years. A photon traveling from us to the black hole, that happens to go around the black hole and come back would reach us in 50k years, or in 50k years plus a few million years due to the local time-space distortion around the black hole? If the photon goes around the black hole once and escapes and comes back, will it be back in 50k years, or in 1 billion years?
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Re:In a photo of a black hole, a possible key to mysteries
by lihaciudaniel on Friday June 05, 2020 @08:27AM
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I would gladly answer but I'm not a theoretical physicist. Here's a video explaining it better: https://youtu.be/UjgGdGzDFiM