On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 15:33:43 -0500, Tim Wescott
wrote:

On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 08:35:30 -0700, etpm wrote:

Not THAT kind of black hole. Sheesh! So I have been reading off and on
about black holes for years. One of the theories about objects falling
into black holes says that an observer outside a black hole watching an
object fall into a black hole will see the object make it to the event
horizon and just hover there. I have not yet found an explanation for
this that I understand. Can anyone point me to a book that explains
this?

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Stephan Hawking, "A Brief History of Time". There's a sequel, which I
haven't read, but I do like the guy's writing.
I've read it. It does not explain the "hovering" phenomena very well.
Eric