Time Dilation in Black Holes

Time dilation near black holes refers to the effect where time slows down significantly for an object approaching the black hole’s event horizon, compared to a distant observer. This occurs because gravity warps spacetime intensely around black holes, making clocks run slower in stronger gravitational fields. From afar, an object falling in appears to slow down and never quite cross the horizon, while the falling object, for itself, crosses the horizon in finite time. This phenomenon illustrates how gravity influences the fabric of spacetime, altering the flow of time depending on the strength of the gravitational field.