I believe its called frame dragging. And space IS a substance in my opinion. If it were just composed of nothing, gravity would not affect it. We don't understand enough about the nature of space really to determine that.
What we observe from the outside would appear...that way because the black hole is smaller on our side of our universe than it is on the inside. IF...black holes eat space as well as matter, it would certainly be composed of much more space than matter. After all, it would constantly be dragging...
You are missing the original premise of my thoughts: If space is dragged into a black hole, (As I originally stated) There is no reason, that matter need be clumped or dragged into a singularity. The matter and space would simply enter and along with the space spread out evenly where it could...
I would imagine a long time before you enter the actual even horizon, your dead. The radiation in the accretion disk would kill you not to mention the heat. You'd also have to think, there would be a lot of electromagnetic energy before you arrived which would fry your brain waves and suck the...
I recently was watching a television show and something has lodged in my brain. They claim that as something approaches a black hole, it swirls in thru the accretion disk and speeds up to at times close to light speed before entering. They also claimed that it leaves an impression or image of...