Where does matter go once inside of a black hole?

Question

If matter can be neither created nor destroyed,where does it go.I know that atoms are pulled apart once inside,but what happens to them.

Answer 1

ok well idk what snuggle is talking about, but we have a pretty good idea of what happens to matter in a black hole. a black hole isnt a hole at all (im sure u know this already) its an infinitely dense geometrical point with 0 volume. any matter sucked in would remain there for trillions of years.

ill tell you exactly how we know this and why snuggles is wrong. if there was anything else besides an infinitely dense singularity you would be left with either: a) something alot less graviationally powerful and long lasting, or b) a schwartzenchild wormhole, which could be considered the most unstable object in the universe, it destroys itself the instant it is created. so if you have a singulatiry with that much gravity anything pulled in will be attracted to it. the gravity would hold it there forever (almost forever, black holes slowly radiate away).

Answer 2

They add to the energy of the black hole (i.e. its mass and its gravitational strength)
Remember that matter+energy can't be destroyed nor created but they can change into each other because they are equivalent (through E=mc^2)
About the atom: They pull apart but the pulled-apart atom which consists of free elecdtons and protons and neutrons is still matter and can be changed to black holes mass or equivalently its gravitational field strength.

Answer 3

It's likely to become a neutron star before it reaches the Schwarzschild density to become a black hole. Beyond that, it likely continues to compress until it becomes degenerate matter, starting with neutron degeneracy. Perhaps it continues to quark degeneracy. But since we haven't even detected anything we are sure is a black hole, all is hypothesis, backed up by some degree of consistency checking. We assume degenerate matter, then do the math using known laws of physics to see if it's plausible. It's not universally agreed, but there seem to be no clear evidence refuting these hypotheses.

Answer 4

Everything falls into an infinitely dense singularity. There is some question as to a singularity as nature abhors infinities and quantum mechanics may forbid a singularity. Regardless, the center of a non-rotating black hole is essentially (almost) a point of no size where space-time is infinitely warped and it is virtually infinite in density.

In a rotating black hole, the singularity is actually a ring with a radius but no other dimension - just a circle, with only a radius. It is also infinitely dense.

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Answer 5

Well, as obvious, it's too dangerous to even approach a black hole due to the intensive gravitational force; even light can't escape.

When matter is absorbed by a black hole, the powerful gravitational force of the core probably causes the superheavy core to absorb matter pulled into a black hole.

Answer 6

Even though a few people here act like they know what happens to matter once it disappears beyond the event horizon of a black hole they're all just blowing smoke. No one knows, and that's the only answer that's correct. Currently we have no laws of physics to even begin to understand exactly and specifically what goes on deep within a black hole.

Answer 7

It compresses to the state that the atoms do not have space to have the electrons and protons

make their trip around the nucleus

Everything comes to a stand still unable to even escape

Compression continues

Answer 8

It becomes part of the mass of the black hole and is lost from the rest of the universe.

Answer 9

They form a liquid soup.

Answer 10

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