What Happens When You Cross a Black Hole's Event Horizon?

[NoClue]

I've been reading these postings, just trying to get a grip on black holes. I am pretty new to this. Something that I have been wondering about... If space traveller A moves directly toward a black hole, into an ever-increasing spacetime compression (while spacetime seeming to decompress as traveller A compresses), would the perceived remaining distance to the black hole decrease at an ever slowing rate, making the trip to the black hole seem endless? From an outside observer, would traveller A seem to assume a spiral path to the black hole, due to spacetime twisting, even though traveller A is moving directly toward it? Also, could it be possible that black holes are actually extremely large (in size, possibly larger than entire galaxies) but distort our perception of themselves by pulling in the space around themselves to a "virtual" singularity. Sorry, don't mean to interrupt a previous discussion, but it seemed liked you guys might have some input. Thanks!