Recent content by DiscoProJoe

Wow, OK. Thanks for clearing this up. In high school back in the mid '90s, my physics teacher told us that if we fell into a black hole, we would "reach the end of time" (as he put it), due to extreme time dilation. Since then, I'd always believed that about black holes, but it looks like he...

Wow, very interesting. For a long time, I've also been under the impression that if someone travels in a spaceship at 99.99999999999999999999999999% the speed of light, then they'd experience a time dilation effect so huge that they'd feel as if they're traveling at trillions of times the speed...

In theory, that's correct. But in practice, you (or probably...the vapors of your remains) could experience a time dilation effect that's so extreme that the black hole could evaporate into space (in 10^50 to 10^100 years) before your remains actually reach the singularity. So depending on the...

I'm just a layman here, who enjoys science and astronomy. I was reading about the temperatures of the cores of black holes being extremely cold, and how time at the singularity...progresses super, super slowly. But this is only as measured from an outside observer's perspective (such as from a...