> From the point of view of something further away watching the thing falling in, it takes forever. I think. Time dilation is easy to lose track of. This has a

> From the point of view of something further away watching the thing falling in, it takes forever. I think. Time dilation is easy to lose track of. This has always made me wonder that if this is true: "From the point of view of something further away watching the thing falling in, it takes forever." Then how does a black hole increase in mass from the pov of "something further away," as things fall into it? Is it just the light coming from the captured object that gets stopped in time, and the mass does get absorbed increasing the black hole's mass in a more normal time frame?