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Falling into the Schwarzschild black hole. Important details

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-13 v2

Abstract

The Schwarzschild space is one of the best studied spacetimes and its exhaustive considerations are easily accessible. Nevertheless, by some reasons it is still surrounded by a lot of misconceptions, myths, and "paradoxes". In this pedagogical paper an attempt is made to give a simple (i. e., without cumbersome calculations), but rigorous consideration to the relevant questions. I argue that 1) an observer falling into a Schwarzschild black hole will \emph{not} see "the entire history of the universe" 2) he will \emph{not} cross the horizon at the speed of light 3) when inside the hole, he will \emph{not} see the (future) singularity and 4) the latter is \emph{not} "central".

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@article{arxiv.0804.3619,
  title  = {Falling into the Schwarzschild black hole. Important details},
  author = {S. Krasnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.3619},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

v1. In Russian v.2 Replaced by the English version

R2 v1 2026-06-21T10:33:42.511Z