[ysrhxyge] Gravity escaping a black hole

Pancakification (a form of relativistic length contraction) explains how gravity can escape a black hole: from the point of view of an external observer, i.e., from the point of view of the entirety of the universe outside the event horizon, all the matter that has supposedly fallen in the black hole is actually observed to be compressed into a collection of pancakes floating just barely above the event horizon (but drifting downward very slowly).  Because these objects are observed to be outside the event horizon indefinitely, they can continue to emit gravity indefinitely.

Previously, musing on the distribution of mass of all these pancakes.  Realistically, physical forces from a rotating black hole, including tidal, have ripped all the objects into tiny particles and rearranged them into spherically or circularly symmetric pancakes, which is equivalent to what we would expect if the matter has fallen in.