Right, I always get that backward.geckzilla wrote:Ok,
http://www.hawking.org.uk/into-a-black-hole.htmlThe crossing of the event horizon is not observed but that doesn't mean that the object never disappears. That's what I needed. Otherwise black holes would be covered in red crap.Although you wouldn't notice anything particular as you fell into a black hole, someone watching you from a distance, would never see you cross the event horizon. Instead, you would appear to slow down, and hover just outside. You would get dimmer and dimmer, and redder and redder, until you were effectively lost from sight.
And BTW, black holes sort of are covered in red crap. They are not at absolute zero- they radiate blackbody radiation. But the temperature is absurdly low- billionths of a kelvin above zero- so the wavelength of the emitted radiation is really, really long (which in astrospeak might be called "red", although it is obviously not in the visible spectrum at all).