[pgyanke]

I went to a planetarium show with my family not too long ago. The “astronomer” opined at the beginning that the laws of physics break down as you approach and cross the event horizon. He then went on to tell us that time freezes at the event horizon so you could actually watch the universe age and pass away there. Uh, dude... you already said the laws of physics break down... put away the equation and picture matter and energy screaming its way to a superdense core, not hanging out watching the universe go by.

[Jack Hydrazine]

I think the little boy on the right visited the event horizon! He's just watching the universe go right on by.

[FredZarguna]

Outside of the event horizon and at the boundary the laws of physics still obtain. [And actually, the statement that the laws of physics "break down" inside the Schwarzild Radius is empirically false: we do not know that they break down, and based on what we are able to surmise, some laws inside appear to be preserved.] As you near the event horizon from outside of the Schwarzild Radius, time slows down very rapidly, and when you reach the event horizon time stops altogether. Unfortunately, the tidal forces [difference in gravitational attraction] near the event horizon are so enormous that no observer could survive the experience.