What would happen to us if we got "swallowed" by a black hole?

Question

Would we de-materialize and be history or would we be transported into another place in space or other? I am just curious about this one.

Answer 1

All of the atoms that make up "us" would be crushed to where they are extremely dense. We would no longer exist as normal matter and our "remains" would be located in this single point in the black hole's core called the singularity.

Answer 2

According to current theories, a black hole is simply a region of space that has been warped by concentrated mass-energy, which is called the singularity of the black hole. You would simply be crushed into the singularity (after being torn to shreds by the mother of all tidal forces), adding to the mass-energy of the black hole. Similar to falling onto the surface of a neutron star, or an extremely massive planet, except in the case of a black hole, your very atoms would be torn apart and there would truly be no information left of you.
The theories of "travelling to another place" come from examining some solutions of the black hole geometry, where there is spacetime "beyond" the singularity. However, in massive black holes, this solution is inherently non-physical. In some exotic geometries, such as ring-singularities and other quite artificial solutions, we get "wormhole" behavior, but this is fanciful at best, and non-traversible for anything but photons at worst.

Answer 3

Theory is that if two black holes are somehow connected then anything going into one of the holes would come out the other hole at a different place and time.

Of course I am not too sure how that something would get away from the hole when it comes out, I would think that it would keep on going back and forth.

Also, the two black holes would have to be mirror images of each other. [?] Otherwise the bigger, denser, black hole would swallow the other one[?]....not sure how it would work--I forgot to take notes when I was reading up on this.

Answer 4

None of the above. The Earth would be ripped apart and compressed down to a point in space, just like everything else that fell onto the black hole. It's not an actual hole; it doesn't go anywhere. It's just a very massive, very dense point in space.

Answer 5

when we pass through the event horizon we would only see black ahead of us. When we get too close to the centre, tidal forces (Actually extreme curvature of space) would become so great that we would be torn to pieces and (according to current theory) be crushed into a singularity at the centre.

Different rules (slightly) apply to non-spherical, charged and spinning black holes.

Answer 6

Be curious no more, because a Black Hole will just send you to Heaven.

Answer 7

You would be stretched and ripped to shreds as you fall into the black hole....

Answer 8

We would be smashed to atoms, by gravity and torn apart by tides.

Answer 9

We would all be ripped apart at the molecular level.