Is the temperature inside a black hole absolute zero?

Question

or close to it? please tell me everything ya know about black holes...

im pretty sure it should be cold because all of the atoms are squeezed together...this prevents movement, which generates heat...therefore, very little movement=very little heat....im just wondering if its absolute zero...

Answer 1

The temperature inside a black hole should EXTREMELY hot, since no energy is escaping and there are constant compaction.

Answer 2

Under one kind of definition, I'd be willing to go along with feanor. If you consider spaghettification (something thought to happen to any real matter near or inside the event horizon, then the disrupting effect should heat up the matter so much that it emits X-rays (whether they escape the black hole is a different story, they are still emitted by the matter).

However, it is also possible that the rules of physics inside a black hole are so different that "temperature" does not mean the same as here.

Considering the Hawking radiation that escapes the Black hole, viewed from the outside, Black Holes behave as if they were very cold objects. This does not contradicts feanor's answer, as it confirms that the "heat" (whatever that means in a black hole) cannot escape.

Answer 3

It depends what you mean.

Crossing the event horizon nothing special happens, so were you to walk across one you would neither heat nor cool signigicantly.

However, a black hole as a whole can only be said to have a temperature as characterised by the frequency of the light it gives off - and for one the size of the sun it would indeed be very, very cold - about a ten millionth of a degree above absolute zero.