2007-04-03 12:46:29 · 9 answers · asked by G-BABY 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Hi. You simply cannot imagine what a black hole is. Jumping into a tree chipper would be a safer trip than the tidal forces near a black hole.
2007-04-03 12:52:41 · answer #1 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The question is very simple to answer actually.
A human could pass the event horizon with a ship. At first, you would not notice you did. Especially if the black whole is big. After a while, the closer you get to the singularity point, the more you will start to feel a pull on the front of yourself. You'll eventually be strechtched into an incredibly long strand of atoms. So, needless to say, you would not survive the trip. Oh, there are also incredibly powerful tidal forces that would completely shread anything they come into contact with in an instant.
If in a hypothetical event you were to attain the singularity point of a black whole, everything you know about physics and time and demensions, all logic of the universe stops to function and opperate in the way you've known them too. The sigularity point is the black whole in essence, it's a star that has collapsed and compressed all the matter into itself, to such an extreme degree that a star the one hundred times the size of our sun would compress everything into something as small as the point on a ball pen. There is so much matter in this single point that the gravitational pull exeeds anything, even light itself which has barely any mass.
When matter reaches the singularity point, it's crushed into oblivion and transformed into pure carnal energy which the black whole uses to keep itself running. Point blank, black wholes are the single strongest force currently known in this universe, so let's just say that it would be safer to jump into a den of lions than to attempt to fly into a black whole.
2007-04-04 08:26:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi - great question!
A black hole is a star that has collapsed in on itself - all its matter is crushed down into a small space called a singularity.
It is so dense that it has a teriffic gravitaional pull and everything within a certain distance of it [the Event Horizon boundary] can never escape. Not even light, which is why they are 'black holes'.
Recently stephen Hawking has found that they can evaporate via hawking radiation!
Anyway, it is little known but i can assure you true, that humans CAN travel inside a black hole. Not for very long granted, but you can survive a few minutes until you get pulled apart.
Unfortunitely you would not be able to radio back to your mothership what you saw :)
x
2007-04-03 13:10:27 · answer #3 · answered by Maria G 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A black hole [if it could exist] is a 2.5 solar mass entity,3 km in diameter.
The surface gravity is such the you would have to travel at more than the speed of light to escape.
No light can escape so it is black.
All it's mass is compressed into a singularity at the center.
It's surface is a theoretical membrane,that will let anything in but nothing out.
If you approached it,it would draw you in and squeeze you out of existence at the center.
the surface,the event horizon would only be a couple of atoms thick.
A black hole is a theoretical entity of which there is no proof it exists..
2007-04-04 06:35:07 · answer #4 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A black hole is a "dead star" that is usually within the center of every galaxy. A black hole is the result of a stellar death. All laws of physics fail when reaching a black hole. No, humans can not travel inside it because the gravity is so strong they would be crushed alive long before they even come close to it.
2007-04-03 12:52:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
A black hole is a collapsed star that fell in and in and in until it created a black hole that can suck anything in around it, even light and time.
A human can travel inside a black hole, but he would not come out. I would guess it would be rather painful as well.
2007-04-03 14:50:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
the best theory i've heard is form david sereda (the galaxy clock) that matter (mass) on a subatomic level is just electromagnetic wave patterns vibrating so fast within a space that they give the illusion that mass is solid.photons are said to have near zero-mass, a property that allows them to attain light speed and beyond.
the reason the black hole is black is because the light is so energetic that you can't see it.
the partical are still there but beyond what you can see with the naked eye
2007-04-03 13:20:09 · answer #7 · answered by ash7600 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Only if you want to crash into other matter inside of it... (Pinball Machine )
2007-04-03 14:30:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes they can but they won't survive to tell about the trip.
2007-04-03 12:50:35 · answer #9 · answered by gnatlord 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋