Comment on trapped in the middle with u

• knightly@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That depends on one’s position on the path from the event horizon to the singularity. At the event horizon you’ll pass all the outward-pointing photons that were emitted the instant the event horizon formed, making all of “down” impossibly bright. Deeper, the only light that reaches you from “down” is light that entered the black hole at an angle and looped around the singularity before you caught up to it, creating a ring of light around an circle of absolute dark. That ring grows thinner and the black circle expands as you get closer to the singularity.

  Photons from above have the opposite appearance, with an expanding ring of blackness around a contracting circle of incoming light paths.

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