Where do you go when you enter a black hole?

Question: Where do you go when you enter a black hole?
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  Black hole
Asked by anon-267480 on 5 Nov 2020.
- Zsolt Keszthelyi answered on 5 Nov 2020:
  
  Well, the effects would be quite dramatic. It is sometimes called “spaghettification” as falling into a black hole would be a very unusual experience. Objects falling into a black hole would be stretched out much like spaghetti.
  
  The material or object actually entering a black hole is “lost” in the sense that we cannot trace it anymore. So it remains too difficult to say what exactly could happen.
- Julian Onions answered on 5 Nov 2020:
  
  No one really knows – we know what will happen to you on the way in, but once you are in there is no current way within the laws of physics to communicate from inside to outside, so whatever happens inside a black hole, stays inside it!
- Daisy Shearer answered on 7 Nov 2020:
  
  We don’t really know what happens in all honesty. Astrophysicists think that when something goes into a black hole, they get stretched out and ripped apart by the extreme gravitational force! The thing about black holes is that (according to our theories) once something goes in (past a point called the ‘event horizon’), it can never come back out again, even light. Hence the name ‘black hole’.
- Liza Sazonova answered on 7 Nov 2020:
  
  A cool thing to add is that the “spaghettification” thing others mentioned actually happens less around very huge black holes, like the one in the center of the Milky Way (it weights about as much as 4 million Suns). Because they’re so huge you don’t get stretched out as much, and you could actually enter the black hole before you’re ripped about! But then you’re in trouble, because our physics doesn’t explain what’s inside…

Question: Where do you go when you enter a black hole?

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