Black hole: What if a person gets into it?

In our universe, black holes are fascinating astronomical objects that are formed from the remnants of massive stars that have undergone gravitational collapse. They have such a strong gravitational pull that not even light can escape from them, making them incredibly dense and mysterious.

When a star with a mass several times that of our Sun exhausts its nuclear fuel, it can no longer support its own weight, causing it to collapse inward. This collapse forms a singularity, a point of infinite density, surrounded by an event horizon from which nothing can escape, giving rise to a black hole.

Now, it’s curious what would happen if a person gets into the black hole. Well, according to NASA, there’s a technical term for it which is called ‘spaghettification’ that rips you to pieces.

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Some researchers or astrophysicists at NASA have spoken about black holes and this scenario. Regina Caputo said, ‘Basically the first part of you that was starting to get closer and closer to the black hole would start to experience the really extreme gravity that was near the black hole. Say if you were going feet first, you know, your feet would start to be stretched apart basically like a spaghetti’. She further said, ‘Once you’re in, you’re stuck and that becomes your universe’.

Jeremy Schnittman, another astrophysicist said, ‘What happens in a black hole stays in a black hole’. In a press release at NASA, he also said ‘People often ask about this, and simulating these difficult-to-imagine processes helps me connect the mathematics of relativity to actual consequences in the real Universe. So I simulated two different scenarios, one where a camera – a stand-in for a daring astronaut — just misses the event horizon and slingshots back out, and one where it crosses the boundary, sealing its fate.'

So, according to that, we can expect that there is no life in the black hole and a person cannot survive in such a mysterious dark place in this Universe.