• Question: Do you think there may be a way enter a black hole without being destroyed by the spaghettification?

    Asked by Julius Caesar to Arthur, Clare, Daniel, David, Tora on 10 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Daniel Parsons

      Daniel Parsons answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      I don’t think so – I wouldn’t want to get past the event horizon to find out either! The only way I could think it theoretically possible would be to travel through the black hole much faster than light….but that is not possible…
      What do you think!?

    • Photo: David Wilson

      David Wilson answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      At a smaller black hole you would be ripped apart before you go even close. However, at the super massive black hole at the centre of the galaxy (it’s six million times the mass of the Sun!) you would actually be able to get beyond the event horizon (the point where nothing, not even light, can escape). As you got close, time would slow down for you, so if you looked up you would see the rest of the universe with time sped up! After you cross the event horizon there would be no way to get out, or even to get a signal out. This also means that we don’t know much about what’s beyond the event horizon either. Who knows what you would find?

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