Time Bends at the Edge: Do Black Holes Swallow Time?

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]5 seconds near a black hole can reveal that time [music] slows so much that a single hour on Earth might feel like minutes for someone near the hole.

[00:00:08]Black holes [music] warp space-time with gravity so intense that nothing, not even light, can escape once past the event horizon. [music] Scientists observe x-ray flickers from accretion disks using telescopes [music] like Chandra to study these cosmic whirlpools.

[00:00:24]A paradox called time dilation [music] means astronauts would age differently if they could orbit such giants, a mind-bending [music] twist.

[00:00:32]What mysteries about time still escape our grasp and what other cosmic clocks await [music] discovery? Will you subscribe for Space Journeys?