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2007-01-05 09:05:36 · 8 answers · asked by orzoff 4 in Science & Mathematics Astronomy & Space

I know we don't know for sure, but what are some popular theories.

2007-01-05 09:17:32 · update #1

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Ronin is right. Inside a black hole, the gravity is so strong that we just simply can't calculate anything anymore... No one really knows for sure but there are theories though...

- All the matter is compressed together
- There is a "White hole" where the matter comes out.
- It is actually a worm hole...

2007-01-05 09:20:29 · answer #1 · answered by Simplex Spes 2 · 0 2

First of all, matter cannot "enter" a black hole. A black hole is surrounded by an event horizon where time stops.

Theoretically matter might build up outside the event horizon, and eventually the event horizon might eventually enlarge and encompass the matter.

2007-01-05 10:52:51 · answer #2 · answered by Feeling Mutual 7 · 1 0

In classical General Relativity, the matter is crushed to a point in the center of the Black Hole. As time is measured outside the hole, this takes an infinite amount of time, and so in some sense it never really happens. Left alone, the hole will evaporate due to Hawking Radiation before the center achieves infinite density. Quantum gravitational effects will intervene before the classical infinite singularity is reached. This is a fancy way of saying that we don't really know.

2007-01-05 09:37:59 · answer #3 · answered by cosmo 7 · 0 2

I think the matter is still in our universe in some form, after all, it's gravity is still here, so in some form the matter must be. One of the popular theories is that the matter gets compressed into other dimensions in our universe. Not much of an answer since it's very difficult for us to imagine anything other than 3 physical dimensions.

2007-01-05 17:25:34 · answer #4 · answered by ZeedoT 3 · 0 2

it stays in the black hole.Here's the tricky part the Black hole is so dense that it doesn't take up any volume in the first place!But if all the matter that went into a black hole was transported to another dimension another pat of the universe then it would eventually lose mass and weaken and it would no longer be a black hole.

It is hawking's belif that all matter sucked into a black hole will eventually be returned to normal space.However this process takes a very long time.For a black hole created after the death of a massive star,Hawking predicts it'll take 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, years to evaporate.And the universe is only 14,000,000,000, years old!!

2007-01-05 09:55:44 · answer #5 · answered by hkyboy96 5 · 0 2

first of all im not a scientest or a learned man by any means but it seems to me that we really don't know where matter goes when it goes into a black hole since we've never experienced it ourselves but i've heard on various tv programs and articles that it is entirely possible that matter when it enters the black hole is compressed and enters a space time continuum of some kind and quite possibly whisked into another part of the universe or possibly another universe. but who really knows for sure thats the real question.

2007-01-05 09:12:30 · answer #6 · answered by tomthefrog51 4 · 1 2

Alll matter entering a Black Hole is broken down into atomic and sub-atomic particles and becomes part of its extremely dense core, contributing even more to its incredible mass, making it the Universe's vacuum cleaner, or the Universe's Garbage Disposal.

If you were to "fall" into a Black Hole, your body would be torn apart clear down to the atomic level. You would become one with the hole...

Mack

2007-01-05 09:10:22 · answer #7 · answered by Big Mack 4 · 1 2

Our physics breaks down We simply don't know.

2007-01-05 09:16:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

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