What we saw was the equivalent of him being on Mercury and looking at the sun. The gravity is nothing special until you pass the event horizon. The accretion disk has stronger gravity but even that isn’t ridiculous and he wasn’t even that close. If our sun instantly turned into a black hole absolutely nothing in our solar system would change and other than losing light, you wouldn’t even notice unless you went past what was originally the surface of the sun. Maybe even closer.
What they’re talking about is time dilation effects, which occur out to a certain radius even beyond the event horizon. e.g. they might apply to a planet orbiting a sufficiently large black hole.
In this case, Nolan seemed to be right next to the black hole, so what they’re saying is that he should have undergone some serious time dilation.
What we saw was the equivalent of him being on Mercury and looking at the sun. The gravity is nothing special until you pass the event horizon. The accretion disk has stronger gravity but even that isn’t ridiculous and he wasn’t even that close. If our sun instantly turned into a black hole absolutely nothing in our solar system would change and other than losing light, you wouldn’t even notice unless you went past what was originally the surface of the sun. Maybe even closer.
Still leaves open him traveling faster than light to get to another solar system in like a few weeks tops
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What they’re talking about is time dilation effects, which occur out to a certain radius even beyond the event horizon. e.g. they might apply to a planet orbiting a sufficiently large black hole.
In this case, Nolan seemed to be right next to the black hole, so what they’re saying is that he should have undergone some serious time dilation.