My understanding is that if the black hole is rotating, you can reach the event horizon. It’s only for nonrotating black holes that the time dilation causes everything to keep slowing down and never actually reach the horizon. I’m not a physicist but I was curious about this a while since it seemed like black holes could never grow bigger because nothing could ever get inside, but if they’re spinning they can absorb new matter (I think).
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My understanding is that if the black hole is rotating, you can reach the event horizon. It’s only for nonrotating black holes that the time dilation causes everything to keep slowing down and never actually reach the horizon. I’m not a physicist but I was curious about this a while since it seemed like black holes could never grow bigger because nothing could ever get inside, but if they’re spinning they can absorb new matter (I think).