What is the theory of what will happen to us when we get swallowed up by a black hole?
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No one is really sure yet. Astronomers and meteorologists are working everyday to figure out what is going to happen but the only theory is that....\n1- The earth stops rotations and can cause us to die\n2- The earth can get compressed into a small cubical.\n3- Nothing at all and we still live... which i hope is this.
512909
Well let me explain it.\n\nYes there is probability. But it is very small. Theoreticians\nhave predicted a particle that on anhiliation can create a small black hole. This black hole can grow by eating nearby matter. This way, it's gravitaional pull will increase.\n\nHole ---> eats matter ----> becomes bigger  ----> eats more matter.\n\nThis way, it will eat up the whole of the universe !!\n\nBut as I said, chances are rare !!!
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I'd wake up from the silly dream, knowing the sun isn't going to turn intoi a black hole, just going to change to a red giant, yellow/white dwarf, red Giant, planetary nebiula, then a white dwarf.  Therefore, I am safe, especially since we would still be in the same orbit if a black hole replaced the sun, just frozen in almost abosolute 0 temperatures, and the planet having no light.  We would all survive, and as soon as I think that, my horrible nightmare ends.
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black holes happen when stars colapse.  Stars are massive fusion engines.  Their mass alone should make them colapse on themselves due to gravity but the nuclear fusion reactions going on in them where hydrogen atoms are being smashed together and forming helium atoms create huge constant explosive energy forcing the gasses in a star outward.  Eventualy the hydrogen gets used up.  The fuel for the star is gone and the star has nothing to keep it's mass from collapsing on itself.  All the star's gas molecules attract each other toward the center through the force of gravity and finaly all that mass which had taken up the space of thousands of planets is contained in the space of, ooohhhh I don't know a bowling ball.\n\nThat small ball of used up star has a huge density.  Density is mass divided by volume.  For example,  A nerf ball and a small marble may both weigh the same, but the nerf ball has a larger volume so the density is smaller and therefore the nerf ball is softer and if it has a density less than 1g/cc it will float while the marble will sink.\n\nSee when the the mass is in the numerator and the volume is in the denomenator is the volume.  As the volume (denomenator) gets bigger while the mass (in the numerator) stays the same the whole number gets bigger. \n\nThis is what happens in a black hole as it collapses.  It has the same number of gas molecules as it collapses but they get closer together and the volume gets smaller.  Let's say the mass of the star is 1 and watch what happens to the density as you divide it by a smaller and smaller number.\n\n1/10 = .1\n\n1/1 = 1\n \n1/.01 = 10\n\n1/.001 = 100\n\n1/.000 1 = 1000\n\n1/.000 01 = 10 000\n\nSee as the mass stays the same and the volume decreases the density gets bigger.  It quickly approaches infinity.  Math doesn't handle infinity well and we can't predict what happens at this point.  We call a point of infinite density a singularity.  \n\nThis singularity in a black hole has a huge density and huge gravity so nothing can get out, not even light, hence the name BLACK HOLE.  \n\nSo how do we know they're there?  We can see the efects of the black hole on other stars and Stephen Hawkins predicted that the black holes would actualy emit radiation which was detected proving him right and proving black holes.
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There are thoeries but they are just that theories.  Some people believe in the big crunch, in that the universe will eventually stop expanding and then retract to a singularity.\nOr that black holes will carry on being created and absorb one another untill the entire universe is swallowed up.\n\nBut to be honest science does not really have the means to provide a definitive answer at the moment.  We will have to wait and see.
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a black hole is a point of infinite density and gravitational pull. First of all you would be dead from different gravitational pulls from the black hole. Second of all, time from your perspective would stop, assuming that einstein is correct and your image would be spread out over an infinite period of time so your friend would see nothing.
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A black hole is a place where the escape velocity is greater then the speed of light because the object's gravity is so strong.  Since nothing is known that can go faster then the speed of light, anything falling into a black hole can never get out, hence the name "black hole."  What happens inside a black hole is not known.  The center of a black hole is theorized to be a singularity because it is a point where all the black hole's mass is squeezed to a point of infinite density.  We really don't know for sure what happens in a black hole because our current theories are not complete, and the fact that no information can ever leave a black hole.  While nothing can escape into a black hole, we can detect them because as things fall into them, they heat up and give off x-rays before they make the plunge.\n\nTwo types of black holes are known to exist.  One is formed when an extremely massive star dies, and it's core is so massive and small that it collapses under its own gravity to become a black hole.  Another type are called "supermassive black holes" which seem to exist in the center of every galaxy (that means our own too).  How or why these black holes formed nobody really knows.  It probably goes back to how galaxies formed in the first place, although we don't know that either.
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something like what we call a "black hole"
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One theory is that every galaxy has a super-massive black hole at its center, which is slowly drawing all its stars into it. Plus the galaxies are being drawn into each other. If this continues, all matter will ultimately be drawn into one enormous black hole, which will collapse into itself and then...BANG! It starts all over again. Of course, there will be no humans around to witness it. Our star would have been destroyed long before that...
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The realistic answer is no, for several reasons.  \n1)  Our sun is too small to collapse into a blackhole.  Even if it did the planets are too far away to be sucked in.  Just because a star turns into a black hole doesn't mean that its gravity get any stronger.  The planets would just orbit it like normal except that there would be no light coming out of it and also no heat.  \n\n2) Our galaxy spirals around a black hole and we haven't been sucked in yet.  Once again, that is because a black hole is only as strong as the mass it contains.  Instead it just keeps all of the stars in the galaxy orbiting around it.  \n\n3) They only way it is possible is if one of the minor galaxies which orbits our galaxy happened to collide with the Milky Way.  If that were to happen the black hole in that galaxy could pass near enogh to the Earth or our solar system to suck us in.
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From far away, a black hole basically acts like a dark star. It could even have planets orbiting it, though they would be very cold.\n\nWhen you get really close to a typical black hole (less than the diameter of a star), or maybe not so close to it, for massive blackholes like those predicted at the centers of galaxy, then things get weird.\n\nIf you got too close to it, the gravity gradient would be very high, so the tidal forces would tear any matter apart. But assuming you could somehow survive those forces, you would be accelerated towards it and eventually collapsed into neutrons and then when the neutrons collapse, who knows. There could be some pile of quarks at the center, or maybe an actual singularity -- there isn't much knowledge about what forces might exist within subatomic particles. A black hole is the universe's most powerful trash-compactor. There really isn't another 'side'. For you, this collapse would happen pretty quickly. From the viewpoint of an outside observer, it would take forever. This is because time is relative and as you approach light-speed, paradoxically, everything would seem to slow down to the guy watching you. That is, until you cross the event horizon (where light can no longer escape), and so he cannot watch you at all ;-).\n\nConcerning earth, a black hole traveling through our solar system would be much more likely to snag earth in its orbit and pull us out of our orbit with the sun than to actually collide with and consume the Earth. Not that this is much better. Without the sun, life can't survive on earth.
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When all matter, including light and time, is sucked into a black hole, an infinitely dense singularity occurs. With all this heavy-duty cosmic attraction going on, something has to give, right? Enter white holes. \n\nPut simply, the idea here is "what goes into a black hole must somehow come out." If a black hole tears the space-time fabric of "our universe" creating a wormhole, a white hole would be the entry point into the "other universe." Essentially, a white hole would be the mathematical exist that emits matter n light just opposite to black hole
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What would happen is we may all die.  What we would do.  Hell get any last piece of ass I could find.
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This is like asking what is a box composed of that you just stuffed with items...Well whatever you put in it.\n\nWhatever the black hole has "consumed" over the course of its lifetime would be what it is made of.  It is what it eats.  The question is does the black hole change the nature of that material.  Probably, but who knows?
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When we discover what happens in a singularity (the center of a black hole) we'll be a step closer to a grand unified \ntheory.
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i was always under the impression that you will move fast enough in a black hole to actually move backwards in time, but because the gravity is so massive, you would never be able to escape, no matter how far back you were to go.  that is, if you were able to live, and your body isn't torn apart.  parts of your body closer to the core of a black hole supposedly would be pulled at a greater rate than parts of your body that are farther from the core.  personally, i don't believe that would happen, i believe the whole body would be pulled towards the center, and move backwards in time until it died of thirst.
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try here\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole