Can you be sucked into a black hole?

Question

If time stops around them, then when you got ready to enter one you would stop. I heard time stops around a black hole.

I'm 13. I don't have a college degree yet, so you can't think I'm an idiot.

Answer 1

Yo!, Me!!!

Several people have mentioned that time stops as the edge of the black hole is reached (the so-called event horizon).

What they failed to mention is that if it is you who does the falling in time does *NOT* stop for you. Your clock will run as it always has. However, for everyone watching you from far off, they will see your clock move slower and slower. In fact, they will watch you fall but *NEVER* reach the event horizon --though you will reach it just fine...well, not fine, but you won't notice yourself slowing down. :)

This happens because the strong gravitational filed around a black hole invoke relativistic effects that change the way folk view you and how you view the world. Consequences of Einstein.

So, meet a black hole and in you go; but no one will be able to see you do it! How odd is that?

HTH

Charles

Answer 2

Right now everything about "BLACK HOLES" are theory. Some of this may be true, some, or maybe all of it is not true.
In the early centuries, during the times of Galileo and the likes the prevalent theory then was that the Earth was the center of the Universe and everything else rotated around it. With time and the increase of knowledge most of the existing theories stopped or were dramatically changed. I am sure that the same will happen to many of today's theories too.
We have not been to a black hole, if they exist. How can we say how they act and how they effect things around. They have observed some things near what they think are black holes, but if you can't see a black hole because they suck in all of the light. How do they know what they think they observed is right, or is that the sun revolving around the Earth again?

Answer 3

Two weekends ago was a program on the discovery channel or something detailing the development of Dr. Stephen Hawking's theories on black holes, and based on the astronomy courses I've taken, research I've done, and this show, it is just as possible for you to be sucked into a black hole as it is possible that the sun will rise tomorrow morning. This is of course assuming you got close enough to one.

Time indeed does stop once you reach the event horizon, the point in space where the black hole begins. But according to some current arguments contrary to belief, when you enter a black hole, because of the acceleration differentials over the area of the black hole (and assuming you could be seen from a distance) you would appear to be stretched out and eventually torn apart, all happening in a time frame relative to the viewer. To you, the person entering the hole, time appears to slow down, but you do not experience the effects the viewer sees. Kinda strange.

If you want more information, just google "Stephen Hawking" and you'll get plenty of hits describing in better detail his theories on black holes, their formation, purpose, etc.

Answer 4

You heard wrong. And the answer to your question is, no. Black holes do not "suck." They are a mass like any other and Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion apply to them just as they apply to stars.

If you are not actually on a collision course with a black hole, and there are no third bodies to complicate the orbital dynamics, you could pass fairly close to a black hole (say 100,000 miles) and not have to worry about getting stuck there. Your path would be the typical parabolic trajectory of any body passing near a star or other large mass.

The real danger to getting that close is the intense radiation environment and, at some point, tides become an issue...tides that will tear apart you or your spacecraft long before you ever reach the black hole.

Answer 5

If a 'black hole' close enough was close enough to grab the
reader be advised initial effects would include enough related displacement that this day would be remarkably unpleasant.
Your very physical structure would begin to distort from the
point nearest pull. Inner organs would crowd the upper body
before arms tear free at body trunk and I'd expect eyeballs to
preceed departure of skull. You are stripped to atoms when
the time issue is joined so that condition won't save reader.

Answer 6

I know your 13 yr old pain. I am 17 and I am studying black holes in my astro class, so I'll explain it so you can grasp it entirely.(I hope)
The "outer layer" of a black hole is called the event horizon. If you get near there you are going to probably be pulled into it by its large amount of gravity. Black holes have such a high density that its gravity is extremely high. So high that light trying to escape from its center is "sucked" back in by its gravity. So if you come in contact with its event horizon you will become "spaghettified" which is what we call it in class.
Hope that helped.

Answer 7

Yes, time stops at the event horizon, which is also where escape velocity reaches the speed of light. But before you get anywhere hear the event horizon tidal forces would rip all matter to shreds. So even if you didn't fall all the way to the event horizon, you would still are doomed.

Answer 8

I watched the same show as dubsconjr. Just to expand on what he said, it concerned Stephen Hawkings and his newest theory. According to Hawkings, the person at the event horizon would not feel that there was any difference but we would see him smeared around the circumference of the event horizon. This theory hasn't been proved mathematically yet though.

Answer 9

I was in a black hole for four years. I did feel like time had stopped. Then I graduated.

Answer 10

you would not notice it because for you time slows down to a standstill but from an observer you would be distorted to a perspective point, and you are actually travelling at a relatively high velocity