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    Graduate Why don't black holes look like neutron stars to outside observer?

    Thanks Enigman, I was under the impression that spaghettification would happen after our unlucky astronaut crossed the event horizon... Yes. So it does appear that, to an outside observer, at least a stellar black hole would appear as a solid mass, with a layer of the degenerate star...
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    Graduate Why don't black holes look like neutron stars to outside observer?

    Yesterday, I read about Hawking's new proposal regarding the firewall paradox. A more general thought about standard black holes occurred to me. Black holes including stellar black holes are of course always presented as if the event horizon is an invisible barrier, which the unfortunate...