• Question: if there was a black hole and everyone got sucked in, where would everyone go?

    Asked by 10kempstera to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 26 Jun 2012. This question was also asked by westbelieving12, confuddled213.
    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      We would all be crammed together at the centre of the black hole, unless so much stuff got sucked in that it exploded…

    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      We’d be squashed together as we got sucked in, and would eventually be crammed into the middle. Unfortunately, no-one knows what’s inside a black hole because nothing can get out, not even light so there’s no way to find out what’s in there. Einstein’s relativity theory suggests that as you get sucked in, time will appear to sped up outside the black hole (relative to you), so you’ll be able to watch the future unfold in high-speed (until you got squashed).

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      Michael Bloom answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      If you where to be sucked into a black hole the gravity would kill you so unfortunately you wouldn’t know where you would go.
      There are actually a few different types of black hole. Rotating ones, Electrically charged ones. They also come in different sizes. Some are as big as entire galaxy, larger than our galaxy the milky way. Each type of black hole corresponds to a different “solution” to a theory we call general relativity.
      There is one “solution” in which if you where sucked into a black hole you may come out of a white hole which would possibly be in another space-time point. This could mean you are far away in another time. However you would be killed by going through the black hole. Also all information you are carrying would be destroyed according to this theory. So you wouldn’t be able to time travel in any meaningful way.
      White holes have never been seen in telescopes but people look for them. And if we see a black hole at the moment we can’t tell what type it is.
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