Wow that kind of blows my mind. I'm not studying physics currently, but I would really like to in the future. I've been incredibly interested in the field for a long time. Thank you and everyone else who responded to my inquiry. May I please ask you to recommend some literature on this topic? I...
It really shouldn't, unless to the outside viewer's perspective, said time is infinite. Infinity is a scary (to me) concept. That's why I had trouble understanding the situation. Unless it truly doesn't matter even IF the time is infinite for the obeserver?
Is there an objective coordinate system that the black hole, the object falling into it and the observer can use? And if not - how would the same situation play out from the black hole's perspective (and its coordinate system, say {x'', y''}).
So when an object is falling towards a black hole, it's clock relative to us, outside observers, is slowing down. Until said object reaches the Schwarzschild radius and it stops completely. So how can that object ever cross the event horizon, if it is frozen in time?