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Re:Mysterious object is being dragged into the black hole at... by Matumio on Saturday February 25, 2023 @11:47AM (#34938038)
> happening in real time

Not sure about calling this "real time". If you actually wanted to do something about it (like saving the poor, mysterious object), then any help you send will face a completely different situation from what we see now.

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Re:Mysterious object is being dragged into the black hole at... by tiagod on Saturday February 25, 2023 @12:12PM (#34938298)
Imagine a world which is almost flat (but hilly), really big, and with a transparent atmosphere. We had extremely good telescopes, so from a big hill we could observe people a few thousands of km away, but we could only move very slowly.

In the distance, there was another civilization that didn't have the technology to see us, or any other way to communicate with us. We also didn't have lasers or any other tech to send messages to them, other than travelling there (which would take some years), but we could see what was going there in almost real time.

Wouldn't the same still apply, even without the limitations of the speed of light?

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Re:Mysterious object is being dragged into the black hole at... by tshaddox on Saturday February 25, 2023 @03:26PM (#34940114)
Okay, but that’s also true if I hear about a house fire 50 miles away. It’s way too late for me to do anything to save anyone there.
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