Rhu Rivi wrote:I'm not trying to provoke a lecture on general relativity and temporal theory, but in say, the case of a stellar black hole, nothing too large, what kind of distortion might one expect? Could a civilization around a black hole run at say, half the speed of normal time, so for every year there two years would pass elsewhere?
With enough handwavium, yes. That sometimes shows up in written SF: old or progenitor civilizations hanging out near black holes, waiting for somebody interesting (or just fresh meat) to show up.