Which of Statement Below About Black Holes Is Not True

question 6

Multiple Choice

Which of statement below about black holes is not true?

• A) A spaceship passing near a 10 solar mass black hole is much more likely to be destroyed than a spaceship passing at the same distance from the center of a 10 solar mass main-sequence star.
• B) Although we are not 100% certain that black holes exist, we have strong observational evidence in favor of their existence.
• C) If you watch someone else fall into a black hole, you will never see him (or her) cross the event horizon; you'll only see him fade from view as the light he emits or reflects becomes more and more redshifted.
• D) If you fell into a black hole, you would experience time to be running normally as you plunged rapidly across the event horizon.

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