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2024-11-25 22:08:36
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John Carlos Baez on Nostr: As the 50th captain falls toward the horizon, he always sees 49 ships in front of ...

As the 50th captain falls toward the horizon, he always sees 49 ships in front of him... in principle! As the previous ships near the black hole, they appear to our captain ever more redshifted and faint. So in practice, they fade to invisibility.

As he approaches the event horizon himself, do their images get brighter and less redshifted, or not?

What happens after he crosses the horizon? Can he see them better then?

I'm not sure. I could figure it out with some calculations, but I'm too busy today.

There is a real shortage of good videos showing different black hole scenarios. I think nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqx5ekshwfcsxlg9v3378re4d2d23v265zzjlr7qqnnszkxv2g2k5qs8208u (nprofile…208u), nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqt76as6gjr7pzg0taz40e55smjjegmj89ud7g056aqed90hs7cynsacyu7x (nprofile…yu7x) and I could team up to make some great videos about black holes, with my main job being to raise questions and provide narrative. But we're probably all too busy! So I raise this scenario merely as an example of the kind of thing that someday should treat in a video someday!

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