Mysterious object is being dragged into the black hole at the Milky Way’s center

Re:Mysterious object is being dragged into the black hole at... by xwdv on Saturday February 25, 2023 @08:22PM (#34942137)

If you are in a time dilation gravity well, the mere act of outsiders traveling into it might be time travel itself, as they are traversing the well from the outside (what you would think of as the future) to reach a point inside where time is lagging behind.

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Re:Mysterious object is being dragged into the black hole at... by anonymouskimmer on Saturday February 25, 2023 @08:38PM (#34942222)

Time may be lagging behind, but you aren't traveling backward in it. Merely transitioning to a slower tick-tock cycle.

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Re:Mysterious object is being dragged into the black hole at... by xwdv on Saturday February 25, 2023 @10:01PM (#34942629)

So in that case traveling into the heart of the well would feel like you are fast forwarding the events of the well until you gradually synchronize with the tick cycle and things move at normal speeds? In which case you could never reach the exact moment of the event you set out to see.

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