u/doofuscfatsperg

Consider this. A spaceship is orbiting a black hole at let’s say a distance of 100,000 miles. It extends out a sphere attached by a wire. The wire is attached to a spool on the spaceship. Let’s say the total length of the wire is 500,000 miles on the spool. There is a gauge on the ship that reads how much wire has been extended off the spool. I’m on the spaceship watching that gauge. What will happen when the sphere reaches the event horizon? I’m not watching the sphere, only the gauge, so I don’t care about the light red shifting or anything like that. I only watch the gauge. Will the gauge stop at 100,000 miles? Will it keep increasing?