The good news is there’s no way you’ll ever get sucked into a black hole. We can only imagine what that looks like. Everything a black hole ever sucked up is still inside it.
If it’s close to a star, it will suck in star material. That black hole sucks in the gas and dust around it. Everything in the massive star squishes into a point so tiny you couldn’t see it-called a singularity. There’s a huge explosion called a supernova. So, what would you see inside that big black hole? Nobody knows!īlack holes form when a massive star dies. Your radio signal would be trapped in the black hole with you. That’s because you can’t send information faster than the speed of light. Sadly, you couldn’t tell anyone what you saw. So, you’d probably be able to see what’s inside the black hole before you became a noodle. If you fall into one of those, you’d pass the event horizon before you started stretching. If a small black hole sucked you in, you would become a noodle before you got to the point of no return-called the event horizon.Ī big black hole is a million or billion times heavier than the sun. At some point, you would stretch so much that you were no longer one piece.Ī small black hole is a few times heavier than the sun. Scientists call it spaghettification-like being turned into spaghetti. You would be stretched into a long, thin noodle shape. The gravity of the black hole would pull much harder on your feet than your head.
If you were sucked into a black hole, it wouldn’t be pleasant. The image was put together by the Event Horizon Telescope. So, nothing can escape from inside the black hole.” The first image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy, named Sgr A*. Nothing can move faster than the speed of light.
“A black hole is a place where that escape speed is the speed of light. “If we want to send a spacecraft somewhere else in the solar system, it has to travel fast enough to escape the gravity of Earth-so the rocket doesn’t just fall back down to Earth,” she said. That’s the same force that pulls your body toward the Earth. She’s an astronomer at Washington State University.īaldassare told me a black hole is an area in space with lots of gravity. I talked about this with my friend Vivienne Baldassare. But they’re also far away so I knew I was safe. According to physics, either way, you won’t notice.I was fascinated by black holes as a kitten. Until then, don’t worry about black holes. Granted, all of this is extremely theoretical until we get into space, find a black hole, and throw a wrench at it or something, we’re not going to be able to actually test these theories. Essentially, if that theory is right, it’s likely we wouldn’t even notice touching a black hole. Actually, there’s a big argument in physics right now about whether or not the entire universe is a hologram sitting on a surface with many more dimensions, possibly a baseball card. You don’t fall into a black hole you fall onto a black hole, and turn into a hologram. The creator of the fuzzball theory, Samir Mathur, proposes a different idea. The only reason it’s not a literal wall of fire is that there’s no oxygen to burn. That’s not a metaphor: The theory is that the black hole tears apart the matter it absorbs, creating what amounts to a wall of heat that obliterates anything it touches in nanoseconds. One camp maintains that if you touch a black hole, you will run into a firewall. It’s called the “fuzzball theory” and it helps scientists reconcile a few problems with black holes.Ĭurrently, though, researchers are split into two camps. Here’s the deal: According to string theory, black holes are essentially giant wads of cosmic strings, one-dimensional imperfections resulting from the universe being made, to oversimplify it to a ridiculous degree. Obviously, the Earth being sucked into one would a disaster and end all human life. Black holes have a scary name, and it’s somewhat fitting: They’re dead stars, floating in space, with such powerful gravitational force not even light can escape it.
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