It would be more than a few trillion years I think, but that is the thinking unless you are a certain contentious Berkeley astrophysicist. The particle does se

It would be more than a few trillion years I think, but that is the thinking unless you are a certain contentious Berkeley astrophysicist. The particle does see itself “reach” the black hole though. And so would an outside observer if they had infinite time. The black hole dissipating sure would make some of the experience odd. I would need to revisit my notes to make a claim about that, but discontinuities like that arent uncommon.