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    Question: How fast or slow does time travel in a black hole?

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      • black hole,
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    Asked by cate532wynd35 on 8 Apr 2026.
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      Martin McCoustra answered on 8 Apr 2026:


      Time slows in a black hole as the black hole bends space which has the effect of making mass accelerate. Relativity then comes into place as the faster a mass moves, the slower time passes for that mass relative to an external observer.

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