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by doombolt 2805 days ago
How would you ever observe black hole to grow/accreate matter then?
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Infalling matter or radiation becomes ‘simply’ infinitely red-shifted (on account of the slowed time), and hence undetectable to an external observer — and is hence indistinguishable from the bulk of the prior-existing “black hole proper”.
Conversely, a particle on the surface of an object compressed to near its Schwarzschild radius should experience an extreme blue shift and time contraction. Imagine absorbing in one instant a billion years of microwave background radiation blue shifted to gamma and beyond. How could the near-black-hole hang onto it?
Inside of a black hole doesn't hang on to anything. There is simply no longer a direction that points out.
Yeah... basically looking backwards from the perspective of an infalling particle one would experience the full blast of the Big Bang as it occurred ‘originally’.
Yes, it is indistinguishable. But it seems that actual black hole is more like a hollow crust in this setting and not a point of mass.
You can indirectly measure it's mass, charge, and angular momentum.