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Why time stops inside the black hole....? Which thing is making such a strong gravitational force in the black hole

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The effect of time dilation in a black hole is caused by the movement from a high gravitational potential to a lower one (basically, getting closer to a massive object). It is predicted by relativity, but impossible to prove empirically since we cannot go in and out of a black hole at will. It is only the observer within the hole for which time stops, though.

Time is a relative issue. The rate at which time moves forward slows down when you're near a very heavy object compared to the rate at which time moves forward for someone who is not near that very heavy object.

If you would be inside a black hole, a day would still last a day for you. However the time outside that black hole would have passed at a much higher rate. Would you be truly at the center of a black hole where gravity is infinite, then time would stop compared to the world outside the black hole. So in a fraction of a second inside the black hole, eternity has passed outside the black hole." - taken from wikianswers.com


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