Journey

into a
black hole
Mihai-Andrei Oprea
103F
1.What are black holes and how are they formed?

Black holes are not black nor do they suck

matter in like a vacuum cleaner.

Black holes are the stellar remnants left

behind from massive stars which have
completed their life cycles. When the star
runs out of fuel, there is no outwards force to
fight gravity and to prevent the core of the
star from collapsing onto itself.

If the star is massive enough (>8 solar

masses) it's theorized that the star's core
becomes a singularity, a point of infinite
density, of such gravity that is bends the
fabric of space-time.
Black holes are simple beasts, in the sense that we can only characterize
them by 3 properties: mass, charge and angular momentum. Nothing past
the event horizon can interact with the outside. Black holes are not
actually "objects" rather they are "places", and due to their immense
gravity, are disconnected causally from the rest of the universe.
Event horizon?
Somewhere around where the arrow is pointing,
that's the event horizon, the point of no return. But
why is it such?
As the name implies, it's a horizon, a boundary
between two objects, in our case between the
interior of the black hole and the rest of the
universe. As I stated in the beginning, black holes
are not black, they appear that way because at the
event horizon the escape velocity for any object is
equal to the speed of light, past that, nothing can
escape the black hole because the speed needed for
that exceeds the cosmic speed limit – c.
Thus, the black hole is not black, it looks like it no
information, not even light can escape it's pull.
Also, the black hole does not "suck" matter in, rather
after some radius away from it, all geodesics point
into the direction of the presumed singularity.
And finally the question
everyone had in their mind.
What would happen if you
were to fall into a black hole?
Let's presume you all are astronauts, and you want
to boldly go where no man has gone before.

First off you head out from your spaceship and you
begin the descent. A black hole is just like any
object with mass – as in – as long as you have a
stable orbit around it, you will remain in orbit
forever, but you decide to venture further, past the
last stable geodesics.

As you get closer, gravitational pull being no

different from acceleration (Einstein's equivalence
principle), you begin to experience relativistic
effects such as time dilation.

If any of you were to sit and watch from the

ship's vantage point, you will see anyone jumping
into the black hole as being redshifted and
their clocks would appear ticking slower until they
would appear to freeze over the black hole's event
horizon.
THE END GO HOME.