• Question: What happens to matter when sucked into a black whole?

    Asked by Ayrton to Ed, Kerrianne, Nina, Oli, yoyehudi on 6 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Yo Yehudi

      Yo Yehudi answered on 6 Nov 2017:

      As far as I understand it, black holes has matter compressed really really tightly in the middle, more densely that you could possibly imagine. NASA has a great description of black holes and how they work here: https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/what-is-a-black-hole-k4.html

    • Photo: Kerrianne Harrington

      Kerrianne Harrington answered on 7 Nov 2017:

      Spaghettification! Isn’t it a fantastic word? It describes what happens to objects falling into a black hole.

      Further to what Yo has said, black holes are really dense places in space. This means that any object that falls into a black hole is stretched and ripped apart by gravitational forces on falling into a black hole – this is spaghettification.

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