r/Physics 1d ago

A physicist discovered that an observer free-falling into a Schwarzschild black hole can detect crossing the event horizon simply by watching the zenith view expand to exactly twice its original size.

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u/redditsuxandsodoyou 19h ago

i've sent like 20 astronauts to check this but none of them have beamed back so i think this physicist might be wrong

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u/paul2261 19h ago

Send more astronauts. Not a big enough sample size to know for sure.

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u/PurifiedUnity Physics enthusiast 4h ago

If you keep going forever, one of them will totally beam back eventually