Why cant a high tech camera be thrown into a black hole to capture what really happens?

Answer 1

Because it will collapse into the infinite density at the singularity.

Answer 2

A few of you seem to be claiming that there's no light inside a black hole - that's incorrect - light can't get out of black hole - get past the event horizon that is, but lights pouring in all the time so the camera would function - the problem is all that its likely to see is at best stars and such warped by the gravitational effects - the singularity itself would be invisible - hmm... if black holes are actually something else like gravastars or black branes then it would be destroyed on impact with the surface... but then I just realised why it would be a worthless exercise!!!!

HOW would the camera tell us what was happening inside the black hole... lol - it wouldnt be able to get any kind of signal out of the event horizon because by definition no signal, no beam no information could be passed to the outside after it was inside! I think thats the real answer and the simpler one.

Answer 3

A very good question. The short answer is: if light can't get out, then nothing can get out. Getting information in any form out of a Black Hole is as impossible as going faster than light.

You might argue: keep the camera on a nice strong cable and pull it out after taking some pictures. It is an interesting result of the mathematical models of Black holes that this too is impossible. No cable can possibly be strong enough for this to work. Once the camera is inside the event horizon of the black hole, its forward time dimension points to the signularity in the center. Keeping it out of the singularity is as impossible as trying to prevent it from moving into the future by tying it down---can't be done.

Answer 4

There are two problems with this idea, first, anything falling into a black hole is destroyed by the immense gravitational field long before it actually passes the event horizon. There is no camera we could build to withstand the gravity. Second, even if we could build such a camera, it's signal could not transmit outside the black hole, remember, light, radio waves, x-rays....NOTHING can escape a black hole. Well...that's not quite true, Hawking did show how they can evaporate, but that's a different process.

Answer 5

Well, even if the camera managed to make it into the black hole intact, have you considered how long it would take us to send a camera there on the fastest spacecraft? We sent New Horizons out last January and it is just reaching Jupiter now. It would take millions of years to send a camera to the nearest black hole. There is no black hole anywhere, and I mean anywhere, near our solar system.

Answer 6

A) Black holes are really really far away, so we won't be able to throw it in one.

B) Black holes are really dark So the camera won't see anything. That's why black holes are called BLACK holes.

C) The camera would be sucked away, and cannot be retrieved.

D) The camera would be crushed in the black hole.

E) Even if the camera did survive, it couldn't get out.

F) Even if the camera could escape through an Einstein-Rosen space-time bridge, the camera would be sent to the past.

Answer 7

A black hole is so powerful that it even pulls in light. Given that a camera requires light to function properly, you would not function properly. Also, the camera would have to transmit data, with some type of signal, out of the black hole. The black hole would not permit that signal to leave the black hole.

Answer 8

Black holes suck everything, even light, into itself. A camera captures light. Even if you theoretically had a camera that could survive near a black hole, there's no light (no images) to be taken. Not to mention the camera wouldn't be able to send any information out of the hole's grasp.

Answer 9

The problem isn't in throwing the camera into the black hole.The problem is in getting the information out. The "event horizon" is the line where the escape velocity becomes greater than the speed of light. Once you pass that boundary, neither you nor any signal you send can get back outside it.

Answer 10

Because it would be torn apart and crushed even before it got near the surface. If it got inside it would not be able to send a signal out anyway as NOTHING escapes from a black hole including radio waves. And the nearest black hole would take many thousands of years to get reach.

Answer 11

LOL, because we would never be able to get to a black hole. We can only see them with extremely power equipment but they are SO far away it would prolly take us more then 10 years traveling at the speed of light.