{"id":203745,"date":"2020-07-29T16:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/?p=203745"},"modified":"2025-02-20T15:44:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T15:44:49","slug":"humans-vs-black-holes","status":"publish","type":[],"link":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/humans-vs-black-holes\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happens If A Person Goes Into A Black Hole?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Type “what happens if a person goes” into Google and you will see this question auto-complete right there as the top hit.\n Wondering about this cosmic phenomenon is clearly keeping folks awake at night \u2013 it\u2019s time to put it to bed.\n You\u2019ve definitely heard of them – you know they\u2019re a dark, powerful enigma of deep space, but do you actually know what they are and how they work?\n Black holes are places in space where the gravity is so immensely strong, due to the massive amount of matter squeezed into them relative to their size, that nothing can escape its pull.\n Not planets, not stars, and not even electromagnetic radiation such as light.\n Because no light can escape, black holes cannot be seen – they are invisible, appearing black against the background of space.\n The only way scientists know of their existence is by using specialized telescopes to observe the behavior of stars and gas surrounding them, and how their behavior changes as their distance from the black hole vary.\n There are indeed a few types of black holes – the smallest are as minuscule as just one atom however, they contain the mass of a large mountain.\n Putting that into perspective: a droplet of water contains 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (two sextillions) atoms of oxygen, and twice that many of hydrogen.\n Imagine that number of large mountains squashed into the size of a droplet of water\u2026 that\u2019s dense!\n There are also \u201cstellar\u201d black holes, which are much larger, and form when the center of very big stars die and collapse in on themselves.\n The largest black holes are referred to as \u201csupermassive\u201d, and their cool name is definitely deserved.\n These black holes have masses that are equal to more than a million of our sun put together and are found at the center of galaxies.\n You may be familiar with the shape of our galaxy, the Milky Way; it looks like a spiral spinning around a central core \u2013 and there\u2019s a reason for this.\n Our galaxy, like every other galaxy, is orbiting around a supermassive black hole, the spiral appearing tighter in the center due to the higher gravitational pull these stars are experiencing relative to stars at a further distance.\n You\u2019ll be pleased to know our solar system sits firmly in the latter category!\n Ah, the burning question – hang on to your space helmets because it\u2019s about to get bizarre!\n Remember I told you black holes had an exceptionally strong gravitational pull?\n Legendary scientist Albert Einstein determined that gravity, if strong enough, can warp space and time as we know it and cause it to curve.\n Therefore, if an object is dense enough (think of all the mountains in the single water droplet!), it can literally curve in on itself and burrow a hole right into the fabric of space.\n The deeper you go into the burrow, the more warped and mangled it gets until you reach the \u201csingularity\u201d.\n This is the point where the curving of space and time becomes infinite; space and time as concepts become meaningless, and the laws of physics, which rely on space and time to be constant, no longer apply.\n So, if someone were to go into a black hole, reality would sort of\u2026 split.\n There are a few theoretical possibilities, and what would happen also depends on your viewpoint \u2013 are you the one falling in, or are you a spectator?\n Both views would be different, but both are scientifically correct, and happen simultaneously.\n Yup. I told you it was freaky. Let\u2019s unpack this a little further.\n Let\u2019s say you\u2019re the one falling in – it all starts with the \u201cevent horizon\u201d.\n This is the theoretical edge of a black hole where its gravitational force precisely counteracts the effort of light to escape it.\n Once you\u2019re past the event horizon, there\u2019s no coming out.\n There are two possibilities here: you fall past the event horizon completely unscathed, or you get sizzled into a scorched shadow of space ash by Hawking radiation.\n Thermal radiation is emitted by black holes at the event horizon due to quantum effects and is named for the famous physicist Stephen Hawking who correctly predicted its existence.\n According to Einstein\u2019s Theory of General Relativity, the first possibility would happen \u2013 you would softly sail past the event horizon into the black hole without so much as a bump or burn.\n This is because you\u2019re technically in freefall, and in freefall, you feel no gravity – and live out the rest of your natural-born life quite peacefully – until you ran out of life support that is, or approached the singularity.\nWhat even is a black hole?\n
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Are there different types?\n
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So what happens if a person goes into a black hole?\n
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Hawkin’s and Einsteins theories.\n
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