re the universe and black holes was re years kv iastate edu warren vonroeschlaub writes let s say that we drop a marble into the black hole it races ever faster towards the even horizon but thanks to the curving of space caused by the excessive gravity as the object approaches the event horizon it has further to travel integrating the curve gives a time to reach the event horizon of infinity so the math says that nothing can enter a black hole this is not correct the event horizon is not the center of the black hole but merely the distance at which the escape velocity is equal to the speed of light that is the event horizon is a finite radius keith
