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Without getting into what happens at the center of a black hole, I think it's correct to describe objects that come close to the singularity as being propelled forward in time faster than those further from that singularity.

So - from the perspective of anything that's falling into a black hole at this moment (as I sit and type these words) - if it was able to observe me, would I be perceived to be moving faster and faster as its relative time slowed? Subsequently - are there points in the universe that are much further into the history of the universe than we are?

I'm obviously not the first to ask this question but wasn't able to find anything specific to this exact idea onine and would love a nudge in the right direction.

Yevgeny Simkin
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There is no absolute standard of time by which you can specify age or even what "at this moment" means. So your question as posed is not very well formed. If you rephrase it in terms of some particular reference frame (like one in which the cosmic microwave background is the most uniform) then you can get answers that are valid for that reference frame.

Relative to an observer in deep intergalactic space who is at rest with respect to the cosmic microwave background, clocks on Earth run slow by about 2 years in a million.

Eric Smith
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