Could a human enter a black hole to study it?
theconversation.comBetteridge’s law of headlines says that any headline that ends with a question mark can be answered with the word “no”.
Could a human enter a black hole to study it? No. Like obviously not.
Nevertheless, it’s a very fun and interesting article. Great quotes include:
This implies … that the black hole’s pull on a person will differ by a factor of 1,000 billion times between head and toe, depending on which is leading the free fall. …
The person would experience spaghettification, and most likely not survive being stretched into a long, thin noodlelike shape.> Could a human enter a black hole to study it? No. Like obviously not.
That is incorrect. With a large enough black hole the event horizon is not a significant feature at human scale. Spaghettification will not occur. A human could easily dip inside the event horizon without damage.
Though of course once you go in there's no going back out!
Obviously yes (if you think about event horizons of different sized ones).
> there is a [...] catch: A human can do this only if the respective black hole is supermassive and [...]