#428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens

1642.446 - 1662.266 Sean Carroll

Literally, the equivalent of escaping a black hole would be moving faster than the speed of light. They're both precisely equally difficult. You would have to move faster than the speed of light to escape from the black hole. So once you're in, that's fine. In principle, you don't even notice when you cross the event horizon, as we call it. The event horizon is that point of no return.