Can you survive spaghettification?

The person would experience spaghettification, and most likely not survive being stretched into a long, thin noodlelike shape.

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Would falling into a black hole be painful?

The fate of anyone falling into a black hole would be a painful “spaghettification,” an idea popularized by Stephen Hawking in his book “A Brief History of Time.” In spaghettification, the intense gravity of the black hole would pull you apart, separating your bones, muscles, sinews and even molecules.

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What happens to the body during spaghettification?

A person who falls into one of these black holes will get to experience spaghettification first hand. As a person is pulled towards the hole, their body is compressed horizontally and stretched vertically. Each part of their body is forcefully elongated in different directions until they are completely torn to shreds.

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Can humans survive black hole?

Nothing escapes a black hole. Any trip into a black hole would be one way. The gravity is too strong and you could not go back in space and time to return home. Aside from this, your body would be stretched and destroyed by the warping of space and the amount of radiation surrounding the event horizon.

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Can you feel spaghettification?

Because of the tidal forces it would feel as if you are being stretched head to toe, while your sides would feel like they are being pushed inward. Eventually the tidal forces would become so strong that they would rip you apart. This effect of tidal stretching is sometimes boringly referred to as spaghettification.

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What If You Fall into a Black Hole?

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What happens when you fall into a black hole spaghettification?

If you leapt heroically into a stellar-mass black hole, your body would be subjected to a process called 'spaghettification' (no, really, it is). The black hole's gravity force would compress you from top to toe, while stretching you at the same time… thus, spaghetti.

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Would black hole spaghettification hurt?

Either way, spaghettification leads to a painful conclusion. When the tidal forces exceed the elastic limits of your body, you'll snap apart at the weakest point, probably just above the hips. You'll see your lower half floating next to you, and you'll see it begin to stretch anew as tidal forces latch onto it.

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Can you ever escape the pull of a black hole?

Black holes are dark, dense regions in space where the pull of gravity is so strong that nothing can escape. Not even light can get out of these regions. That is why we cannot see black holes—they are invisible to our eyes. Because nothing can get out of black holes, physicists struggle understanding these objects.

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How fast is spaghettification?

Alternatively, in the case of a smaller black hole with an event horizon much closer to its center, a human would be killed before crossing the event horizon. In both cases, spaghettification would be very quick, occurring in less than a second.

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Does time stop in a black hole?

Near a black hole, the slowing of time is extreme. From the viewpoint of an observer outside the black hole, time stops. For example, an object falling into the hole would appear frozen in time at the edge of the hole.

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Can you physically see a black hole?

Scientists can't directly observe black holes with telescopes that detect x-rays, light, or other forms of electromagnetic radiation. We can, however, infer the presence of black holes and study them by detecting their effect on other matter nearby.

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How long would you live if you fell into a black hole?

Sorry, science fiction fans. You can't actually survive a trip through a black hole. And if you tried to take a plunge into one, like Matthew McConaughey in the movie Interstellar, you'd be ripped apart long before you could find out what's on the other side.

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What happens if a human touches a black hole?

Black holes are regions of space where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape them, not even light. Even before you reach the event horizon – the point of no return – you would be “spaghettified” by the black hole's tidal forces. Astronomers do not actually know what goes on inside black holes.

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Do white holes exist?

A white hole is a black hole running backwards in time. Just as black holes swallow things irretrievably, so also do white holes spit them out. White holes cannot exist, since they violate the second law of thermodynamics.

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What is human spaghettification?

If you're into cosmic death, spaghettification is a fascinating way to go. The human body, stretched under the pull of gravity into a string of atoms, would create a spiral that if laid straight would stretch 70 some odd light-years across the universe. But mostly, spaghettification is just theoretical.

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What is the closest black hole to Earth?

Located just under 1,600 light-years away, the discovery suggests there might be a sizable population of dormant black holes in binary systems. The black hole Gaia BH1, seen in this artist's concept near its Sun-like companion star, is the closest black hole to Earth discovered so far.

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What can destroy a black hole?

Eventually, in theory, black holes will evaporate through Hawking radiation. But it would take much longer than the entire age of the universe for most black holes we know about to significantly evaporate.

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What can defeat a black hole?

Black holes, the insatiable monsters of the universe, are impossible to kill with any of the weapons in our grasp. The only thing that can hasten a black hole's demise is a cable made of cosmic strings, a hypothetical material predicted by string theory.

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Are black holes hot?

Stellar black holes are very cold: they have a temperature of nearly absolute zero – which is zero Kelvin, or −273.15 degrees Celsius. Supermassive black holes are even colder. But a black hole's event horizon is incredibly hot. The gas being pulled rapidly into a black hole can reach millions of degrees.

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How long is 1 minute in a black hole?

One hour for a black hole observer would equate to 100,000,000 years for a person on Earth. Therefore one minute in a black hole would be roughly 1,700,000 years.

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Would a black hole stretch you?

As you fall toward the black hole, you move faster and faster, accelerated by its gravity. Your feet feel a stronger gravitational pull than your head, because they are closer to the black hole. As a result, your body is stretched apart.

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Can Earth fit in a black hole?

Earth will not fall into a black hole because no black hole is close enough to the solar system for Earth to do that. Even if a black hole the same mass as the sun were to take the place of the sun, Earth still would not fall in.

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What can't escape a black hole?

Since nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, nothing escapes the event horizon of a black hole.

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How did NASA take a picture of a black hole?

It was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), an array which linked together eight existing radio observatories across the planet to form a single “Earth-sized” virtual telescope. The telescope is named after the “event horizon”, the boundary of the black hole beyond which no light can escape.

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What is on the other side of a black hole?

There's nothing on the other side. Just disassembly and death. If you're looking for an escape to another dimension, might I suggest a good book instead? Here's an article I did about how to maximize your time while falling into a black hole.

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