• Question: would it hurt to be sucked into a black hole?

    Asked by anon-225908 to Sameed, Jose, joannabarstow, Heidi, Freya, Chris on 21 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Sameed Muhammed

      Sameed Muhammed answered on 21 Nov 2019:

      No, because when you are being sucked into a black hole, you will fall in it endlessly.

    • Photo: Heidi

      Heidi answered on 21 Nov 2019:

      I agree with Sameed, but there’s an interesting phenomena called “spaghettification” where the immense gravitational pull of the black hole would stretch you so much you’d look like long, thing spaghetti. This would probably rip you apart, but like Sameed said, the concept of time breaks down in a black hole so from your perspective, you might be falling endlessly.

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