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The effects of a black hole

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  • 06-12-2009 10:52pm
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    Foxhound38
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    (Not sure whether this belongs here or in the Physics forum. If so, please move :) )

    I am ignorant of physics so you will have to excuse what must seem like a stupid question. A hypothetical situation: You are on a ship of some kind and it is sucked into a black hole - what would happen to you? I mean, presumably it would not be the nicest of experiences and you would almost definately die - but how exactly? Not much point to the question I know, just something I am wondering about.
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    Turtwig
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    Well this is pop science so...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1iJXOUMJpg


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    Gurgle
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    Foxhound38 wrote: »
    You are on a ship of some kind and it is sucked into a black hole - what would happen to you?
    Crushed instantly to the size of the head of a pin.


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    Roar
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    or, if you're lucky enough to be in a star trek movie at that point, you'll go back in time with Leonard Nimoy.


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    VinnyTGM
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    The gravity of a black hole is so great that even light cannot escape. The escape speed of the black hole is greater than the speed of light.

    As said above you would be crushed into an incredibly small point.


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    Genghiz Cohen
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    Planet earth to the size of a full stop .


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    VinnyTGM
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    Genghiz Cohen wrote: »
    Planet earth to the size of a full stop .

    Indeed.


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    BendiBus
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    Gurgle wrote: »
    Crushed instantly to the size of the head of a pin.

    Spaghettified first? The gravitational difference over just a couple of metres would be such that one end of you would accelerate way ahead of the other before you ended up microscopically sized.


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    Gurgle
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    BendiBus wrote: »
    Spaghettified first? The gravitational difference over just a couple of metres would be such that one end of you would accelerate way ahead of the other before you ended up microscopically sized.
    Yes, of course.
    You would be turned into a line for a femtosecond before you become a full stop.


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