• sicklemode [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    I always wonder if two observers were falling towards two different black holes that were the same mass, would they percieve each other's clocks passing the same?

    It would be roughly the same phenomenon as observing from the ship. Both persons would perceive the other's clock slowing down as the light has increasing difficulty reaching the observer.

    Presumably they wouldn't be slowing down relative to each other, so long as they fell the same speed towards the same mass. Until at some they both cross the event horizon and shouldn't be able to send signals anymore.

    You said two different black holes, so there would be time dilation experienced by both when observing the other party. If they were falling together side by side towards the same black hole, their clocks would be basically identical and would experience time in the same way. Even after crossing the horizon, they'd be able to see eachother and interact up until they were spaghettified. This is because light can still move upwards relative to us, and reach our eyes, even if all space is falling faster than light. This was addressed in the video when talking about the local scale of spacetime below the horizon.