Does Time Slow Down in a Black Hole?

[Redrocket]

It is stated that nothing can escape a black hole and they are gigantic and powerful enough to rotate a galaxy. The gravitational force of space acting on the black hole is immense. On this level of gravity could time it self be stopped in the black hole?

Therefore the amount of mass taken by the black hole could be a lot less then we think it just takes longer as time is slowed down.

Your thoughts…………

 

[S.Vasojevic]

It is stated that nothing can escape a black hole and they are gigantic and powerful enough to rotate a galaxy. The gravitational force of space acting on the black hole is immense. On this level of gravity could time it self be stopped in the black hole?

Therefore the amount of mass taken by the black hole could be a lot less then we think it just takes longer as time is slowed down.

Your thoughts………

My thoughts are that you put your question(s) in pretty unclear fashion, except for time slowing down, which is true for outside observer.

- Black holes are not necessarily gigantic. It is mass/volume ratio, or density, that qualifies region of space, occupied by that mass, to become a black hole.

- Mass is the one that causes gravity, not the space. But it is true that space - time is the "medium" through which gravity acts, so you can tell that space - time is the one who exerts "force" on a object.

- What do you mean by "Therefore the amount of mass taken by the black hole could be a lot less then we think it just takes longer as time is slowed down". It just takes longer for what?

 

[DaveC426913]

It is stated that nothing can escape a black hole and they are gigantic and powerful enough to rotate a galaxy.

BHs come in all sizes. Some are small, some are huge and live at the centre of galaxies (they do not "rotate the galaxy" - galaxies will do just fine without them.)

The gravitational force of space acting on the black hole is immense.

It is the gravitational force of the BH that acts on space, not the other way around.

On this level of gravity could time it self be stopped in the black hole?

Why would it?

Therefore the amount of mass taken by the black hole could be a lot less then we think it just takes longer as time is slowed down.

The changes in the gravitational field around a black hole propogate at the speed of light.

 

[Chalnoth]

It is stated that nothing can escape a black hole and they are gigantic and powerful enough to rotate a galaxy.

Er, well, not quite. The supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies sound impressive, but they still only make up a tiny fraction of the total masses of the stars in galaxies.

Therefore the amount of mass taken by the black hole could be a lot less then we think it just takes longer as time is slowed down.

Well, time dilation is fully taken into account by the gravitational field predicted by General Relativity.