The Black Hole?

Question

If you get pulled into the black hole I take it you won't be able to get out. My question is If im in space can I see the Black hole, How big is it and how would i know if im in it?

Answer 1

If you were in space you would see a black hole because it would have an accretion disk around it - a disk of the matter that it was pulling in. It may also be giving out x-ray because of the Hawking effect, so it may not be as back as you would expect.

If you could survive the gravitational shear forces near the black hole, as you crossed its event horizon you would - in your frame of reference - experience nothing exceptional. The event horizon isn't like some magical surface - its just a region in space around the black hole beyond which no information can pass.

Answer 2

Ok, so first off the size of a black hole varies. There are super huge black holes at the center of most galaxies. There are also a few small ones in our part of the Milky Way.

Could you see it? That depends on light... They are black and they do pull in light, however there are times when they pull in so much energy that it leaks out in a light house effect, big bright beams of energy shooting out in either direction. In other cases, there are times when black holes will occur near other stars and will suck the corona right off them, in these bright streams of light.

As for how do you know you’re in it? Well you would know, because on an atomic level you are being forever stretched into infinity. Because we are 3D, our height, our width, our girth make black hole bad for us. Let’s say you're in a space suit floating on your back in space near a black hole. The very bottoms of your feet being closer to the black hole will be drawn in first, then the atoms just above that are drawn in but at which point the first ones are now that much closer to the black hole. So the very bottoms of your feet have that much more force applied. Like a stack of paper, the more sheets you pile up, the more force (pressure) that bottom sheet feels. Now what really makes this bad is there is no end to a black hole, you can never reach the center so as you get infinitely closer you are pulled infinitely stronger, and since there is no way out of a black hole, you are there for infinity.

Answer 3

First of all you cant see the black hole, period. If you could, the usual black hole I assume your talking about would be about 4–15 solar masses, or a supermassive black hole, about 10^5 to 10^10 solar masses, in comparison, our sun is 1 solar mass. Also, You wouldn't know if you were in it, for you would be dead, no matter what if you were. First, the acceleration disk would melt you. The radiation would bake/fry you to death as well. Then, you would be sucked in and crushed to an infinently small space at the center of a black hole.

Answer 4

Well no and yes. It depends whether the black hole is in a binary system or not. If it is, you would see an acretion disk, a huge amount of gas rotatin a mysterious object and dissappearing into it. Tha is a black hole. If there ins not star nearby it cannot be seen. The only way to know if there is a black hole nearby is to throw something there and see it dissappear.

Answer 5

think of it as a drain hole...it literally sucks in everything, even light...you don't want to go near a black hole.....it will tear you and your space ship apart....they are found mostly in the center of galaxies, the milkyway has one, we can tell by the emissions of x-rays that it give off.....perhaps that's natures way of cleaning up the universe....it could spell the end of the universe, if the amount of matter pulled into a black hole exceeds the rate of creation of new stars and planets.......however if that is our fate, then there should be enough energy pulled into the black hole that could eventually explode and create a big bang, and life starts all over again.............

Answer 6

You cannot see a blackhole because light cannot escape it for you to see it. By the interactions of matter around the blackhole we can surmise where this black hole is and how big it is. You wouldn't know if you were in a blackhole because it would have crushed you into nothingness.

Answer 7

No you wouldn't see it, Your only way of knowing would be that your getting pulled in it's direction. There are big and small ones, You would never get out.

Answer 8

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