Yashika Jain
As a matter of fact, the universe has many unique and mysterious things.
Amidst those black hole is very unique and mysterious as it is still gasping scientist in amazement as almost every day something new occurs and new theories are proposed.
As we know a black hole is an object with heavy dense mass and has a strong gravitational pull that does not allow anything to escape from it, not even light.
Now, here we will discuss the theory regarding the situation if we fall into the black hole.
Spaghettification
The renowned scientist ‘Stephen Hawking’ used this term in his book ‘A Brief History Of Time’. It refers to the effect the black hole exerts on a body or matter.
In astrophysics, it is defined as the vertical stretching and horizontal compression of the body or matter into long thin spaghetti (long thin shapes).
Basically, it occurs due to the strong gravitational force.
Where Things Go in a Black Hole?
Theories say that the object or matter that falls into the black hole is compressed to the tiny point in the center called ‘singularity’ due to the black hole’s strong gravitational pull.
Black holes do not suck everything in them. They are not like the rumors say: vacuum cleaners of space.
They just have a strong gravitational field than other stars and attract objects strongly.
What Will Happen if We Fall into a Black Hole?
Albeit the black holes are not as scary as they are described in the rumors. They also do not suck.
But this does not mean that you can casually go into a black hole. Falling into a black hole is still nightmarish.
Even a massless photon is not able to escape from it; so certainly we are also unable to escape.
Thanks to Einstein’s theory of relativity, we can predict what will happen to us if we fall into a black hole.
According to renowned scientists, spaghettification will happen with your body and it will stretch into thin long spaghetti.
Your body will be like toothpaste and it extruded out of the tube (pretty scary!). As we know there are different types of black holes; we will feel differently in different types.
If we fall into the ‘stellar black hole’ we will become spaghetti-shaped doornail and die hundreds of miles before we reach the singularity.
On the other hand, if we fall into the ‘intermediate or supermassive black hole’ we will surely die a horrible death but less tragic than stellar.
Although, we will meet death in both cases but we’ll be able to reach the singularity while we are alive.
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The irony of this experience; there is something interesting also.
To an amusement, if you fall into a black hole before your body was torn apart, you will witness a miracle.
Do you know what that miracle is? Let me tell you…
If you fall into the black hole you will be able to see the start and end (both) of the universe.
To put it in a nutshell, you’ll able to see the entire history of the universe from the big bang to the distant future simultaneously (unbelievable!).
Also, if you see ahead you will see all the things that have ever fallen into the black hole, and on the contrary, if you see backward you will see all the things that will fall into it in the future. This all happens due to ‘time dilation’.
Also, when you fall into a black hole, at first you will attain the speed of light.
According to the legendary scientist Einstein’s theory of relativity, the more the speed of the object; slow will be time for it.
Therefore, when you fall into it the things fallen prior to you will experience greater time dilation than you. That’s why you are able to look at them.
Fortunately, nothing happens to anyone until now. Black holes are far away and do not have any nightmarish influence on our solar system.
