What would it be like to be launched into a super massive black hole?

Question

would you die right away? what an awesome way to fade away.

Answer 1

Well the first problem is getting there.

As matter is sucked into a black hole it collides giving out heat and radiation due to nuclear fusion. So it would be a lot like trying to fly through the centre of a star....nice and toasty.

Next there will be big differences in the gravitational pull. Your feet will be 2 metres closer to the black hole, and so we pull with a much large force than your head (unless you go head first) stretching you very thinly or more likely pull you apart (as generally speaking I am not made of rubber, and I assume you aren't either).

Finally you will be compacted into a very small space, so small it is infact not space at all, but a place where everything is in one place (a point of singularity).

However, if the black hole is spinning, which is most likely to be the case, it may not have a point of singularity but instead have a ring. If you pass through the centre of that ring you will end up....well no one is not certain, but possibly another universe, or, also possibly in just another part of our universe (this is an answer to a different question).

Finally, while dying in a black hole might sound like fun, it can't meet the requirements of "Live fast, die young, leave a beautiful corpse"

Answer 2

The curvature of space time at the event horizon of a supermassive black hole is only about 6 times that here one Earth - basically, you would not even notice that you had crossed it.

Utlimately, of course, you would be crushed at the singularity in the centre. However, in a supermassive black hole it would take longer than your natural life for you to reach it.

Answer 3

Basically you would be stretched out like spaghetti and eventually ripped apart. Not pleasant.

Answer 4

i don't know but I don't want to be the first!!!