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I read a story today about NASA viewing a black hole devouring a distant start in a display of horrible table manners.

Where does the light that gets sucked into the black hole go to? Is it broken down into the smallest sub atomic particles and dissipated?

If you could have a baseball sized object that could withstand the rigors of a black hole's gravity and threw it into the black hole...what would happen to the ball?

Thanks!

2006-12-06 17:55:36 · 13 answers · asked by Edward 5 in Science & Mathematics Astronomy & Space

13 answers

no one is sure what occurs within a black hole. technically, they are still hypothetical, but strongly likely...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_holes

this may help clarify:
Black holes are sites of immense gravitational attraction into which surrounding matter is drawn by gravitational forces. Classically, the gravitation is so powerful that nothing, not even radiation or light (hence why it is black as no light is reflecting from it), can escape from the black hole. However, by doing a calculation in the framework of quantum field theory in curved spacetimes, Hawking showed that quantum effects allow black holes to emit radiations in a thermal spectrum.
Physical insight on the process may be gained by imagining that particle antiparticle radiation is emitted from just beyond the event horizon. This radiation does not come directly from the black hole itself, but rather is a result of virtual particles being "boosted" by the black hole's gravitation into becoming real particles.
A more precise, but still much simplified view of the process is that vacuum fluctuations cause a particle-antiparticle pair to appear close to the event horizon of a black hole. One of the pair falls into the black hole whilst the other escapes. In order to fill the energy 'hole' left by the pair's spontaneous creation, energy tunnels out of the black hole and across the event horizon. By this process the black hole loses mass, and to an outside observer it would appear that the black hole has just emitted a particle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation

2006-12-06 18:01:19 · answer #1 · answered by jabber_wok 2 · 0 0

It doesn't matter how big the object is, not even time escapes a black hole. The closer you get to a black hole, the more time slows down. It's gravity is enormous and everything that enters a black hole is broken down as you said into the smallest sub atomic particles. Einstein had a theory....He thought black holes were sort of a gateway between dimensions, with an entry point and an exist point. Any of these theories can be true...no one has ever went close to it and see what happens. We can only observe from afar.
Hope this helps

2006-12-06 21:49:05 · answer #2 · answered by Scooby 6 · 0 0

If a black hole could exist it would have no exit point.
A ball entering a black hole would be disassembled to a quantum state and crushed into a singularity at the center.
A black hole is an impossible theoretical entity that cannot exist

2006-12-07 01:54:32 · answer #3 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 1 0

Some theories suggest there are things called "white holes" at the edge of the universe that recycle the things back into the universe that were devoured by the black holes.

2006-12-06 17:58:27 · answer #4 · answered by Kemmy 2 · 0 0

Black hollow a million) no, we can calculate the mass of black holes subsequently no longer countless, SMBH at center of our galaxies is two million photograph voltaic plenty. 2) confident 3) tricky to declare, no person know what happens previous the even horizon. something previous the progression horizon exists in distorted area. 4) confident 5)confident 6)confident White holes do no longer exist they're hypothetical and in straightforward terms word to the eternal black hollow concept which has been shown incorrect because of Hawking radiation, and is the reason how black holes lose mass and evaporate,

2016-10-14 04:45:41 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

according to my perception the black hole is a heavenly body like a plenet or a star(Most probably a star) which has a very high density. this gives it so much gravitational power that it even sucks the light it emits. now light is made up of minute particle or energy packets called photons. these get sucked back to tht planet. now the light from neighbouring stars shuld be reflected from heavenly bodies. it gets reflected from normal plnets but that planet (black hole) sucks the light from other stars too which falls in its gravitational field. thus we see it as a black hole

2006-12-06 18:10:55 · answer #6 · answered by vicky_rohan 2 · 0 0

None
Its hard to tackle this because even NASA are hard enough to study the different items in the universe, and who knows like what other say, it an entrance to another universe or world

2006-12-06 18:15:14 · answer #7 · answered by Konsehal Mikol 2 · 0 0

Interesting question, but nothing recorded in this timeline have ever experienced this, a man , or a woman or a man made object. All you can get is ichy theorys.

2006-12-06 17:59:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

black hole is an engine where matter is converted to energy and thus by doing so the energy is added to the already exiting energy which i hope is confusingu

simply i dont know the answer and no one does except

STEPHEN HAWKInG

2006-12-06 17:59:48 · answer #9 · answered by want~an~IQ 2 · 0 0

No one knows...not even NASA.
No one is "brave" enough to get close enough to find out.
If light cannot escape it's gravity...how would you see to know, if you COULD go in?

2006-12-06 17:58:36 · answer #10 · answered by ? 6 · 0 0

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