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Without air, is there terminal velocity?

If I'm accelerated by gravity toward, say, a black hole, if there's no air to slow me down to a given terminal velocity. Does that mean I just keep accelerating until I approach c (assuming I don't reach the mass first)?
gpt
With no force to stop you, Newtonian mechanics says that you will simply accelerate indefinitely. Of course, we know from special relativity that nothing with a finite non-zero mass can ever reach the speed of light. So, with nothing to stop you, you would simply speed up and draw ever closer to c, before you eventually collided with the black hole. That is, assuming that you and the black hole are simply points separated on a straight line. For a real, spinning, black hole, you would experience more interesting effects like spaghettification when you cross the event horizon.