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Comment by cyberax

14 hours ago

That's not how black holes work. It takes an infinite amount of time for the light at the event horizon to escape, true. But you can think of it as if it's an "optical effect".

If you are a free-falling observer, _nothing_ changes for you locally at the event horizon. You will cross it and reach the singularity within a finite (and quite short) time.

Well, at some point space-time warps so much that unless you are at the center of the would-be singularity, you'd see everything closer to it than you freeze-out as an event horizon appears. If you are inside the event horizon then... I'm clueless about what you'd experience.

If I to guess, you'd see yourself outside an smaller event horizon (as nothing gets through one due to spacetime warping) and you's have a lot of mass very far behind you due again to space time warping so that yout local scape velocity is less than c.