So if something gets caught in a black hole it gets tore apart atom by atom... Now does this atom get tore apart into sub atomic particles(electrons, protons, neutrons). If so then do these get tore into quarks, neutrinos etc...
2007-07-27 13:04:42 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Currently we do not have any theory regarding what happens to subatomic particles when gravity becomes as strong as the other nuclear forces. Normally gravity is very weak compare to the other three forces and can be completely ignored. Therefore we have relativity that rules the large scale universe and quantum mechanic that rules the subatomic particles. Science has been trying to find a theory that combines relativity and quantum mechanic but so far no success. So to really answer your question, anything that goes into the particle will be tore apart into atoms but then what happens to those atoms we have no idea.
2007-07-27 20:07:29 · answer #1 · answered by zi_xin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep. After crossing the event horizon, tidal forces will continue to increase as an object approaches the singularity. All other forces will be overwhelmed. It's the so-called spaghetti effect. No structure survives, even on an atomic level.
Bound particles have to exchange force-carrying bosons and such to remain bound, and this ability will be lost as the light cones become increasingly constrained towards the direction of the singularity. So, with a hydrogen atom for example, the bound proton/electron would reach a point where their spacing is too far to effectively exchange virtual photons. No more atom. Everything gets ripped apart down to the fundamental particles.
Edit: On comments below, the orbital velocity inside the event horizon IS greater than the speed of light. That is why nothing can orbit a black hole inside the horizon. You inevitably fall in to the singularity since a sub-orbital velocity means a decaying orbit.
2007-07-27 21:33:36 · answer #2 · answered by SAN 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fact that it is claimed any mass entering a black hole is crushed into a singularity at the center make no sense.
Consider,the mass and gravity of any celestial body [including a black hole] is concentrated at the center from above surface,giving the surface an certain escape velocity.
If you penetrate the surface some of the mass and gravity is now between you and the surface so an orbital velocity would be less than at the surface.
With a black hole when you penetrate the surface the mass and gravity would still be concentrated at the center so orbital velocity below the surface would be greater than the speed of light.
We know this cannot happen so we have to restructure the black hole to enable it to exist.
Come on Hawking radiation, what about it?
2007-07-28 01:53:10 · answer #3 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the black hole. Large (supermassive) black holes do not have very strong tidal forces even all the way to the event horizon. Smaller black holes have very large tidal forces as you near the event horizon. EDIT: "So the tidal force would be more relevant than the gravitational pull? Even on something with such little mass, and such a strong bond?" Yes. It's not how strong something is pulling on all the atoms. It's how *different* the pull is between atoms. Otherwise all the atoms are pulled identically and there is no force trying to pull them apart. As an example, if it pulls on one part with a force of 5000N and on another part with a force of 5001N, then there is a force of 1N pulling them apart. That difference is the tidal "force". Because covalently bonded atoms are pretty close to each other, there has to be a huge gradient to rip them apart just from gravity.
2016-05-20 22:07:46 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are not theoretical (above person). You will never be able to "see" them. You can only see the effects and this has been observed and documented. (recently released)
Nothing else will explain the observations other than black holes.
Now, on the question: theoretically, it will get crushed to zero volume. So it's not necessarily a strict process of breaking down. It could be instantaneous. But things would rotate normally around the black hole like we rotate around the sun, unless we were within the schwartzchild radius. Now let's say an electron passes within the radius, but nucleus doesn't, then it probably would pull that electron off.
Think of a singularity as like the physical representation of the math problem of dividing by 0.
2007-07-27 14:07:08 · answer #5 · answered by existenz48162 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well...Black holes are pretty much theoretical doodads at this present time. No one has seen one in the flesh yet. So your guess is as good as mine. I keep seeing questions every night in here about "What happens if I fly my space ship into a black hole?" Right??? The guy asking the question really has a space ship and all that, sure... And, get this, he wants
me to tell him what it is going to be like when he flies in it for about 30 - 50 Light Years distance. Well, between you and me, 3,000 years after I tell him about what I think is in a Black Hole, he might be really shocked to learn that I really hadn't the foggiest notion. I might be dead then, so I am confused about my level of concern... you still with me???
2007-07-27 13:14:34 · answer #6 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
In quantum mechanics it becomes pure energy and then reorganizes to mass.
2007-07-27 13:09:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing gets torn as far as we no. they just get sucked up
2007-07-27 15:54:13 · answer #8 · answered by Math☻Nerd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sad
2007-07-27 13:09:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋