when stuff goes into a black hole where does it go?

Question

when stuff goes into a black hole where does it go?
could the earth be sucked in to a black hole?

Answer 1

Possibility 1: There is no "out." Matter simply gets crushed and collected.

Possibility 2: The black hole is actually a tunnel, on the other side of which is a "white hole," that ejects matter much like the black hole swallows it.

Note that while we can detect things which meet our description of a black hole, we do not detect things which meet our definition of a white hole.

The Earth could be sucked into a black hole. Fortunately, there are none nearby.

Answer 2

The whole concept of a black hole is that not only stuff but "where" itself is compressed immeasurably, and a planet is small potatoes compared to a dwarf star, much less a black hole. On a cosmic level, Earth is pretty trivial. Don't look for this to happen tomorrow, though.

Answer 3

A black hole is a bit like a spatial garbage disposal. Matter goes in, it doesn't come out, or what does come out is disintegrated matter and energy radiated from axial jets.

Well? Could the Earth be sucked into a black hole? What do you think? Is the answer self-evident?

Answer 4

My understanding is that it goes only as far as the event horizon of the black hole, the "shell" around it at which the gravity becomes so strong that light cannot escape. At that distance from the hole's center, time actually stops, so further inward motion is not possible. It may be that my understanding is out-of-date, though. I believe Hawking has published some new math on the topic recently.

Answer 5

No one really knows where the stuff goes when it's sucked into a black hole. As for the earth being sucked into one, the chances like that for happening is if our sun collapsed, but chances like that for happening is very nil at this time.

Answer 6

Scientists theorize that once matter enters a black hole it get compressed to a point at witch it turns to energy. Some photographs show X-rays being shot OUT of black holes at speeds some suggest are faster than light.

I'm sorry to say that they are all wrong.

Once matter enters a black hole it unfortunately ends up in my back yard. If anyone can help me get rid of it all I'd be greatful.

If a black hole drifted too close to earth we could definately get sucked in and then you'd all be in my back yard. If that happens please bring a dish to share.

No german potato salad please.

Answer 7

Inside a black hole, matter becomes compacted to a point of infinite pressure and density. No matter can escape this point unless it is slowly radiated away from the black hole by Hawking radiation. The matter doesn't really go anywhere.

Answer 8

A black hole is not a tunnel things go through. Its just an object that's very small and very heavy. So object caught in the gravitational field of a balck hole are crushed and add to its mass.

Answer 9

when something goes into blackhole it stays in black hole forever......well there is no black hole nearby to suck earth and black hole can suck anything and everything....if u consider sun its too small to become a black hole a star has to be atleast 100 times the size of the sun to become a black hole..sun is going to become a red giant and swallow the inner planets and blow the outer ones.....

Answer 10

the only way earth can b sucked in2 a black hole is if a star collapses ( to form a black hole) in the earth's orbit