Comment by somat

Yeah, that is the tricky part. The problem is that black holes are eldritch interstellar cryptids, and for the most part physics gives up and goes to cry in the corner the minute you start asking about "what's in a black hole?"

But in this specific case, you get one odd conclusion. if it takes forever to enter a black hole. is it impossible for anything to pass the event horizon? It sounds like this is observation dependent. but from an external point of view you are unable to observe anything entering the black hole. and from an internal point of view, the universe will instantly age and die when you try and enter the hole.(and if hawking radiation actually exists you will see the black hole shrink and pop the instant you try and enter it) either way nothing is getting in.

Is most of the mass of the star that formed the black hole actually stuck in a time dilated shell just outside the event horizon? Or perhaps all the mass is eternally stuck collapsing. and never actually reaches the density required to pass the event horizon. is that another way to define the event horizon? the point where time stops.

Time dilation makes my head hurt.