Given that it could stay intact, what would a camera see if it could go inside of a Black Hole?

Answer 1

Blackness

Answer 2

Well, lets say the camera was intact uh.... let me figure. (still trying to picture) Ok. Done. Lets just say that your camera was made of heavenly materials, or some like that.

Once it hits the event horizon, the camera will see a lot of dust, planetary parts and a lot of other stuff, being sucked in at a speed faster than light. Yes, faster than light.

Things get stretched and the heat of the speed (or the pull of infinite gravity) atomizes everything, except for your camera. Which means that, if you happened to be there, by the time you even realised anything, you would become mere atoms lined up for miles.

Furthermore, the atomic you, will ionize, due to the super super heat (about a few million Kelvin). At this point, everything that enters the event-horizon manifests into a common type of particle, or a ray. Then, this ray approaches the actual "hole", including your primordial camera.

The next thing, I have to admit, is my mere imagination, due to all my metaphysical reads, and my meditation on the kundalini. Anyway, even science, can only imagine at this point.

Ok, your camera, upon entering the black hole, will see a point. The Point of Singularity. Technically, you really cannot see it, because there is nothing to be seen. Remember, the volume of a black hole is ZERO. Though there is mass, this weight is only felt in a separate dimension - a dimension that your camera probably could not penetrate.

So, all the camera will see is, electrons being pushed into protons to become neutrons, and then disappearing into a tiny hole, big enough just to fit one neutron! This scenario happens right before anything enters the black hole.

Now lets say your camera still manages to enter this "hole"! What you might see is EITHER absolute nothingness OR the creation processes of the universe (if you manage to pop out at another dimension via a "whitehole" or an exit) OR you could be taken to the beginning of the universe, where you go through 13 billions years of creation again. Just a reminder that Time becomes a dimension (a stationary object), past a black hole, so you can just move along it back and forth, as you wish. At this point, I am assuming that we maintain the same speed, as it is, within the black hole. Here, the black hole becomes a super highway for terresterial particles to go back and forth in time, as everything else remains stationary. That is, the past, the present, and the future even.

Now, thats something to be developing when your camera gets back to you.

In fact, I believe that there is no hole. Its just a point whereby all particles experience the Big Crunch, and become One. Sooner or later, this could happen to the whole universe, and we will all be reduced to one small neutron, full of potential energy.

Answer 3

I just have to pipe in here...
A black hole is actually (theoretically) a sphere of condensed matter. The gravitational pull of the mass is so strong that light cannot escape it.
If light can't escape it then all photons in the immediate vicinity of the black hole join a common path toward the object.

Now realize that your eye, or the eye of the camera will only 'see' photons. If all the photons are going in the same direction you will have to tilt your camera and/or your eye into the direction of the photons.
So, you would have to be sitting on the surface of the black hole looking out into space. Any other angle would not collect photons and nothing would be seen.
And if you did point your eye or camera in that direction, I would guess that the volume and intensity of photons would produce the most amazingly perceived bright light.
I say perceived because when you look, your brain is merely perceiving a signature or pattern sent to it by your eye balls which are using electrons to communicate the signature or pattern. Your brain is blind and deaf and only receives information in the form of electronic patterns.
So!
Blinding light - if angled directly out into space, or total darkness if angled anywhere else.


There is another possibility...
Black holes eminate strong jets of matter from the top and bottom. There is a possibliity that many photons follow the surface of the black hole and get jettisoned into space. In which case you might be able to put your face to the 'ground' and see a waterfall of colors racing over the surface.

Thanks for your question. This was fun.
:-)

Answer 4

A black "hole" is a body of highly condensed matter. Its gravity is so powerful that it sucks in all matter and energy from anything that comes near. A camera would simply be crushed to bits, but as you say IF it could somehow stay intact, it would probably "see" just an object until, poof, its own matter was absorbed. Probably not even that though because a black hole also absorbs energy which would include all light, so the camera would not even have light with which to "see."

Answer 5

If it were pointed towards the outside of a blackhole, it would see all the incoming particles (assuming they were travelling at the same speed as the camera, then the physics of light would be the same in that reference frame, even within the event horizon, and the camera could see the object if it gave off light).

If pointed at the singularity, jack crap. If pointed somewhat sideways, there's still a pretty good chance it will see something, because many particles that enter the event horizon have a funky spiral pattern before they fall into oblivion.

Answer 6

Nobody knows. Our laws of physics break down at the event horizon, and scientists have yet to figure out what the region inside of a black hole would be like.

In my astronomy class last year, my professor said that the time constant in a rotating black hole becomes negative once you cross the event horizon, but he admitted that nobody knows what the real meaning and implications of that are.

Answer 7

What it sees is of no consequence, since the data would be absolutely irretrievable.

A flyby of a black hole might be possible, but as a previous answerer mentioned, singularity would emit nothing detectable. The wavefront of matter drawn into a black hole would produce a kaleidescope of relativistic distortions as the event horizon resolves toward singularity.

Answer 8

No one knows, not even scientists, but I'de imagine it would be very bright because of the matter travelling so fast. Hmmm, the singularity would be too small to see with a camera though...

Answer 9

Possibly a worm hole to another galaxy

Answer 10

Everything being shredded down to molecules.