Can I Survive Moving Into a Black Hole?

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Moving into a black hole results in immediate physical consequences, including being shredded and compressed due to extreme gravitational forces. Observers outside the black hole perceive the infalling individual as moving in slow motion, while the individual experiences a rapid fall through the event horizon. Black holes emit Hawking radiation and take billions of years to evaporate, far exceeding the time it takes for an individual to reach the center. Neil deGrasse Tyson's book "Death by Black Hole" provides further insights into these phenomena.

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  • Understanding of black hole physics
  • Familiarity with Hawking radiation
  • Basic knowledge of general relativity
  • Concept of event horizons
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  • Read "Death by Black Hole" by Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Explore the implications of general relativity on time dilation
  • Research the lifecycle of black holes and their evaporation process
  • Study the effects of extreme gravity on matter
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Astronomy enthusiasts, physicists, and anyone interested in the complexities of black hole behavior and the nature of time in extreme gravitational fields.

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since we know that black holes give off hawking radiation and slowly evaporates, and time seems to come to a screeching halt near a black hole. if you were to move into a black hole would it evaporate before you reach the very center?
 
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SheepWShotgun said:
since we know that black holes give off hawking radiation and slowly evaporates, and time seems to come to a screeching halt near a black hole. if you were to move into a black hole would it evaporate before you reach the very center?

If you fell into a BH time would not slow down for you. In a stellar mass black hole you would have little time to live. Basically you would be shredded and compressed in short order.

It is only a person far outside the black hole watching you who would see you moving in slow-mo. He would not see the last split splat of your life that transpired after you fell thru the horizon. He would only see you as you fell down right to the horizon. And he would see that episode stretched way way out in HIS time. If he kept watching it would seem to him that it took you hours to fall the last little ways to the horizon.

But according to your own pulse and timesense and wristwatch, you would whip thru the horizon and continue falling to the center in a flash.

Meanwhile the hole would have billions and billions more years of life (after it ate you and) before it evaporated.
 
SheepWShotgun said:
since we know that black holes give off hawking radiation and slowly evaporates, and time seems to come to a screeching halt near a black hole. if you were to move into a black hole would it evaporate before you reach the very center?

I highly recommend that you read Neil deGrasse Tyson's book Death by Black Hole.
It will effectively answer this, as well as other questions you might have.
 

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