Viper_63 t1_is6biwo wrote on October 13, 2022 at 4:50 PM

>In October 2018, a small star was ripped to shreds when it wandered too close to a black hole in a galaxy located 665 million light years away from Earth. Though it may sound thrilling, the event did not come as a surprise to astronomers who occasionally witness these violent incidents while scanning the night sky.

No, it wasn't "ripped to shreds in October 2018". That's not how speed of light works. You can not witness something 665 million light years away in the instant it happens.

Bensemus t1_is7pj46 wrote on October 13, 2022 at 10:14 PM

That's exactly how it works. To use the star was just recently consumed. This is our reality and it is 100% true. To the black hole and the star this happened 665 million years ago while you won't be born and therefore won't exist for 665 million years. It's not that the black hole isn't aware of you. Do do not exist in the black hole's reference frame.

Viper_63 t1_is851ga wrote on October 14, 2022 at 12:10 AM

>That's exactly how it works. To use the star was just recently consumed. This is our reality and it is 100% true.

No it's not. We know that what we are observing happened hundreds of millions of years ago and not recently. Hence this event did not happen in October 2018 - we know it didn't, because w eknow that the speed of light remains constant over galactic and intergalactic distances. That we are observing the event just now has no bearing over when it originally happened.

>It's not that the black hole isn't aware of you.

I am reasonably certain that a black hole isn't aware of anything, regardless of reference frame, and that both we and the black hole can indeed exist in the same referance frame.