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What would it feel like to be inside a black hole?

Answer 1

Inside a black hole, matter is stretched to a limit, atoms are split and matter is hundreds of kilometers long due to the immense gravity of a black hole.

The contents of a black hole are completely unknown, but there are a few theories that suggest that matter falling into one goes to another location in the universe, or possibly to another universe. Another theory, which may be accurate, holds that matter falls into a black hole and remains there indefinitely until the black hole dies.

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Answer 2

Leah Abbate

Time dilation would cause time to slow down from the perspective of an outside observer; gravitational forces would increase rapidly, causing intense gravitational pressure; and ultimately, current physics would not be able to adequately describe what would happen at the singularity. Entering a black hole would result in spaghettification, where tidal forces stretch objects into long thin shapes.

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