What's really in a black hole? Can we send a probe down there?

Answer 1

There are no black holes anywhere near this solar system.

So, no, we cannot send a probe down them.

Answer 2

Black holes are essentially stellar cores that cannot stand their own gravity and collapse to a point where the density is such that the escape velocity is higher than the speed of light.
So, what goes in? Initially, fused star matter, that means elements with a nuclear mass similar to iron of higher, as those take away energy to fuse further. Once the density of the collapsing star reaches neutron star status, the electons and the protons are squeezed together and all that matter turns into neutrons. Some stars would stop there, but if the mass is high enough to push beyond the neutron resistance to the point of no return, then all the matter is compacted to an infinitely dense singularity, the composition of which is immateral, as it is essentially pure mass with not much more properties.

Sending a probe in -- if there was a black hole close enough to do so -- would see the probe being accelerated in, torn to pieces right down to the atomic level by tidal forces before disappearing beyond the event's horizon. You can send a probe in, but do not expect it back after; if fact do not even expect a radio communication, even if the black hole was to be massive enough to minimize tidal effect around the event's horizon and not crush the probe before swallowing it, the probe signals would be incrementally red shifted to black body radiation at zero Kelvin. That means zero emission, no signal. No information.

Black holes are very secretive astronomical beasts...

Answer 3

According to scientific evidence you could not send a probe in and receive any information. The gravitational force of a black hole reduces all matter to a speck that could fit on the tip of a needle. The probe would be destroyed. Information might be obtained before the probe is torn apart but nothing can survive the gravitational force of a black hole.

Answer 4

A black hole is a dead star that is closing in on itself. If you were to send a probe, it would go in but you wouldn't get it back out. It would be sucked in and gone. But hey let's send one anyways, I know a few politicians that we could send.

But what's on the other side of the black hole? Maybe when a star dies here and causes a black hole it creates a new star or planet on the other side.

Answer 5

Well, it is my understanding that it is a lot of stuff swirling around in a big dark hole like the center of a funnel cloud. You could probably send a probe off into one of the black holes, but it would take about 45 light years or more to get there, and I am not going to wait around that long to find out what it saw when it got there.

Answer 6

No. First of all, we can't send anything even a light year away, and there aren't any nearby black holes. Second, a probe could not transmit information once it crossed the event horizon of a black hole. Remember, radio waves are light - if light can't escape, neither can radio signals. The forces inside something as colossal as a black hole would shred ordinary matter to its constituent atoms. No, a black hole is "cloaked." Like a captured soldier who will only give his name, rank, and serial number, the only thing we can know about a black hole is its spin, charge, and mass. That's it.

Answer 7

Empty space except for the singularity in the center. Anything entering the event horizon (boundary of the black hole) is pulled into the singularity. We could send a probe into a black hole, but it would not be able to report its findings--its radio trasmissions would be sucked into the singularity as well as the the probe itself.

Answer 8

Black Hole, an extremely dense celestial body that has been theorized to exist in the universe. The gravitational field of a black hole is so strong that, if the body is large enough, nothing, including electromagnetic radiation, can escape from its vicinity. The body is surrounded by a spherical boundary, called a horizon, through which light can enter but not escape; it therefore appears totally black. So no, we can't send a probe down there.

Answer 9

crushing is most likely but according to the Kerr theory a rapidly rotating black hole would have a navigable event horizon. You could theoretically squeeze a probe past the singularity. It might take a couple hundred thousand years for us to figure that one out, and there no telling if you'll be able to get information back from your probe, so it may be a futile excercise.

Answer 10

You can send anything you want down there. Just don't expect to get it back. It's called a black hole because it swallows matter and energy. The best guess is that it is a collapsed star, so dense that it's gravitational pull captures even light. While a star is usually huge, as in our sun, this one has collaped to a few miles wide. Don't strain your brain trying to understand what it is. The best minds on earth are just guessing, but no one really knows and there is a good chance no one on earth ever will know because the nearest black hole to earth is too far to affect us. Be thankful. It would suck us down, our whole solar system, like a dust mote. Remember, we are 93 million miles from our own sun, and much farther to the next nearest sun, or star if you prefer.

Answer 11

What a very bad misnoma!

A "black hole" is not a hole at all! Quite the contrary. A hole contains nothing, whereas a "black hole" is extremely dense matter, exactly the opposite to nothing.

The only reason it was called a "hole", is because anything that goes near it is lost forever!

I wish someone would rename them as something more logical so people don't get confused.