• Perfide@reddthat.com
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      The neat thing about black holes is the process would be both instantaneous and take literally eternity, depending on one’s perspective.

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      Depends on the size of the black hole.

      Really big ones can let you live for a surprisingly long time. (Not going to quote any numbers because I’m not completely sure of them any more)

      Bigger black holes become more and more gentle.

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      I think you literally stretch; the part of you that touches the horizon line first experiences infinite gravity, while the parts of you outside the horizon line don’t, so you’re getting stretched out as the parts inside the horizon line fall in much faster

      Edit: read the reply to my comment, they’re probably more right than me lol

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        No, that’s not the case at all.

        If you fall into a black hole, you can do no experiment to detect the horizon, it’s a completely unremarkable region of space to you. Infinite gravity is only really a thing at the singularity, but that’s almost definitely just because our theoretical models breakdown and stop giving accurate descriptions of reality there.

        The stretching is just because of tidal forces, which means that gravity gets so much stronger closer to the black hole that your feet are pulled harder than your head, you experience the same thing standing on earth, it’s just that the change in gravity is basically negligible here.

        Source: Was a black hole physicist for a while

        Small edit: Tidal forces stretch you in the exact same way that they stretch the ocean, thus creating ocean tides.

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      It is literally stretch because the difference in gravity at your feet would be much stronger than the gravity at your head, pulling you apart