Black holes???

Question

This is something that has always interested me. What would happen if you got sucked into one?

Answer 1

first, i would like to say that black holes don't suck. a black hole is essentially a region of space-time from which nothing can escape. black holes have the appropriate gravity for their masses, but the volume of space-time that they occupy is so much smaller that matter can get much closer than it would otherwise so experiences a greater gravitational acceleration.

second, if you were to approach a black hole and be unable to escape then what you would experience would depend on the mass of the black hole. the event horizons of the more massive black holes are farther away from the center than the event horizons of smaller black holes, and since gravitation decreases as the square of the distance, the gravitational acceleration you would experience would be one quarter as much as it is for a black hole whose radius is half as much. you would survive passage across the event horizons of the largest (e.g. black holes the mass of those in the centers of galaxies) black holes because the gravitational acceleration experienced by different parts of your body is slight enough, but you would not survive passage across the event horizons of the smallest (e.g. black holes the mass of those of stars) black holes because parts of your body closer to the center of the black hole experience a much greater gravitational acceleration and would fall faster so you would be torn apart.

but there is much more to it than this, i suppose, because black holes normally rotate and are normally surrounded by spinning discs of matter that is falling in and bipolar jets of matter speeding away from the black hole along its axis of rotation.

Answer 2

Black holes have a completely enormous amount of gravitational pull. Not even light can escape it. If you were to be sucked into a black hole, first of all, you would die. As you're being sucked in, your body stretches out and becomes red (since all the color is being sucked in with it). All this happens in a matter of mili-seconds! Another thing is if you were to be sucked into a black hole, time would seem to slow down for you as you are being sucked into the point of singularity. (the point where all matter of time and space are disrupted and distinguished)

Answer 3

According to Stephen Hawking, if you were to be pulled into a Black Hole, you would be stretched and torn asunder due to the monumentally powerful gravitational forces. If light is unable to escape, then how could a mere human swim away from its strength?

Also, it is said that black holes are singularities in which time no longer exists. If you are sucked into a black hole, the concept is that will stop when you get inside, but your physical condition would be so warped and devastated that it would not really matter.

Answer 4

Black holes are in fact a concentration of matter; The more matter you have concentrated in a same space, the grater gravity is. I think that is why not even light can scape from them... They are also the door for spaceworms. Now, I agree that if you get close to a black hole you will die, but I would like to think for a moment that we will be able to go into a black whole in the future. Then the question turns into... where do they lead?

Answer 5

After crossing the event horizon (the point of no return) you would be pulled toward the point of singularity at such an increasing rate that if you were being pulled feet first, your feet would be pulled faster than your head and your body would be stretched until it ripped apart. This process would only take a few seconds for a very large black hole and much faster for a small black hole.

Answer 6

Basically, you would never reach a black hole to be sucked into it. Your mass would become infinite as you approached the black hole and so you would be slowed enough never to reach it, as it is a singularity. But Ive heard others say you could be pulled into a blackhole and then what would happen would depend on whether or not the blackhole was spinning (there are spinning black holes).

Answer 7

Mageta8:
It is a common misconseption that black holes lead to other parts of the universe. This is completely untrue. Wormholes are what lead to other parts of the universe, and it is possible that they are created by gravity wells, such as a black hole. But falling into one would accomplish only one thing: being crushed by such intense gravity and density that even light fails to escape it.

Answer 8

Some scientists say a black hole would take u to other parts of the universe. Or even into time! But i dont think we'll ever know for sure.