What happens to time as you get closer to a black hole?

As you get closer to a black hole, the flow of time slows down, compared to flow of time far from the hole. (According to Einstein’s theory, any massive body, including the Earth, produces this effect. Near a black hole, the slowing of time is extreme.

Would time slow down near a black hole?

The falling clock also becomes continuously redder, since its light loses energy as it escapes from the black hole’s vicinity. By contrast, if we were falling with the clock, time would appear to behave perfectly normally. We would see no slowdown as we approached the event horizon.

Why does time slow down around a black hole?

Time indeed slows down around a black hole according to Stephen Hawking. Now this phenomenon happens because of the super gravitational force of the black hole. By virtue of this enormous force the black hole warps the space-time present all around it to such an extent that time around it slows down considerably.

Can you use a black hole to time travel?

PS- A black hole can be used only for time travel into the future! Just hang out close to the event horizon for a while and then return. Much more time may have passed for everyone else because your clock seemed to run so slowly.

Why is the distance of light greater near a black hole?

This web page provides a good explanation. To oversimplify the explanation, you have to understand the curvature of space time around a black hole. The basic principle is that because of the curvature of spacetime around a black hole, the amount of “distance” a beam of light has to cover is greater near a black hole.

What does a black hole look like?

From the outside, the region of a black hole looks like the surface of a sphere (in our model with two space dimensions and one time dimension, like the circumference of a circle). But inside that sphere, which has only a finite surface area, you can “hide” objects that are infinitely large – infinitely extended in space. How does this work?