Eli5: How does gravity affect time, dumb it down for me as much as possible

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Eli5: How does gravity affect time, dumb it down for me as much as possible

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Lots of explanations here already. One thing I wanted to add is that it’s a relative effect. If you were to go near a black hole you would still perceive time as going at the normal rate. But your time would be changing differently to everyone that wasn’t near the black hole