Tuesday, March 31, 2009

What happens if I get sucked into a black hole?

This is another great question I have been hearing a lot. I think everyone is pretty safe from black holes, but theoretically....

If you were sucked into a black hole, your energy would convert into heat, and your body would reach incredibly high temperatures. As your superheated self fell closer to the center of the black hole, you would cross a threshold called an event horizon. The event horizon is like a point of no return. After the event horizon, any light from your heat would no longer be visible. Your would collapse into the center of the black hole, which called a singularity. The singularity is a dimensionless (not 1-D, 2-D, 3-D, 4-D, etc...) object of infinite density.

Long story made short: You would be squashed!!! Well, squashed into a dimensionless object of infinite density with no light. Try drawing a picture of that!

Here are the sites I used to research this question.
http://kids.yahoo.com/science/space/article/blackhole
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/universe_level1/black_holes.html

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