clipka escreveu:
> nemesis <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> Darren New escreveu:
>>> nemesis wrote:
>>>> kind of after image that seems to ever approach the event horizon
>>>> without ever touching it, but in reality the crossing of the EH
>>>> already took place and nothing of what happens in the inside is seen...
>>> Hmmmm.... I'll have to think on it.
>> I think it has something to do with the last photons coming out of the
>> object entering the EH are severely slowed down by the massive gravity
>> and only reach you after much more time than normal has passed.
> 
> Yeah - interestingly, the distance between a point near the EH and a point far
> away is shorter when moving towards the EH than when moving away from it on the
> very same route...

So that's why light takes a lot more time to reach us and thus the after 
image just before the crossing is visible.  OTOH, time and space are two 
sides of the same coin, isn't it?

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