OK, so to a faraway observer the object seems to be moving extremely slowly, and the light is extremely red-shifted as it approaches the event horizon, and we never see it cross since anything beyond the event horizon is not observable, but finally we can't observe it any longer.
Even though...
Thank you for your reply. So in a way, when observing something moving towards a black hole, there will come a point when we can't detect the object any longer. By that time it will, at least from its own perspective, have passed the event horizon anyway. If there is no way for an observer to...
Yes, I mean watching the light signals near, but outside the black hole's horizon. Would not this be a way to discover black holes? Enormous quantities of mass would seem to us to be surrounding their event horizons?
For an observer far away, nothing ever seems to actually cross the event horizon of a black hole, but to "freeze" right at the event horizon. Does this mean that if we could observe a black hole, we would be able to still see everything that has ever entered the black hole? Would every object...