Question: If you travelled into a black hole, where would you come out?

David Mills answered on 19 Jun 2018:

Current thinking on black holes suggests you’d not come out anywhere. At the very centre of a blackhole is a singularity (a point where everything you can measure goes to infinity – it has infinity density, zero size and infinite temperature – all things that don’t make sense – physics can’t describe a singularity).

If you fall into a blackhole you will hit the singularity, unfortunately you’ll be dead long before due to the extreme gravity of the blackhole stretching you (scientists call this spaghettification). At first it wouldn’t feel too bad, but then it would hurt, then you’d blackout and die as all your blood got pulled to your head or feet. Soon after your body would be pulled apart, then the molecules making up your body would be pulled apart, then the atoms, then whatever else. Eventually all these subatomic fragments that were once part of you would hit the singularity and – Well we just don’t know. Physics can’t describe what would happen that close to a singularity.

But the likelihood isn’t that you’ll come out anywhere.

Please don’t try this experiment at home!