[Physics] Does time exist at the center of a Black Hole

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A black hole is a wormhole resulting from a dead Star which is capable of sucking any mass/matter along its path due to Gravity. I was wondering what time would be like at the central point of the wormhole, would it exist at all or would it be faster or slower?

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In standard GR, nothing exists at the center of a black hole. The center of a black hole is a singularity, and because GR fails at that point it is simply removed from the manifold. That means that the singularity is not part of spacetime.

To answer your question more realistically, we believe that GR is an approximate theory that fails well before you reach the center. Unfortunately, we have no good alternative theory with which to answer the question in the region where GR fails. We simply don’t have any data from that regime and it is very hard to formulate a good theory without data. So there very well could be time at the center, but we simply don’t have a good way to even guess.

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