و رغم أنه، نتيجة لمفعول نسبي يعرف بتمدد الوقت، سيبدو و كأن ساعاتنا تبطئ بالنسبة للوقت المجري، سيبدو و كأن تطور المجرة قد تسرع ثم قذف إلينا، قبيل سحقنا المميت من قبل الثقب الأسود.
And even though, due to a relativistic effect known as time dilation, our clocks would seem to slow down relative to galactic time, it would look as though the evolution of the galaxy had been sped up and shot at us, right before we were crushed to death by the black hole.