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Could a human enter a black hole to study it?

• seanhunter 1y ago
  Betteridge’s law of headlines says that any headline that ends with a question mark can be answered with the word “no”. Could a human enter a black hole to study it? No. Like obviously not. Nevertheless, it’s a very fun and interesting article. Great quotes include: This implies … that the black hole’s pull on a person will differ by a factor of 1,000 billion times between head and toe, depending on which is leading the free fall. … The person would experience spaghettification, and most likely not survive being stretched into a long, thin noodlelike shape.
  • karmakaze 1y ago
    Obviously yes (if you think about event horizons of different sized ones). > there is a [...] catch: A human can do this only if the respective black hole is supermassive and [...]
  • positr0n 1y ago
    > Could a human enter a black hole to study it? No. Like obviously not. That is incorrect. With a large enough black hole the event horizon is not a significant feature at human scale. Spaghettification will not occur. A human could easily dip inside the event horizon without damage. Though of course once you go in there's no going back out!