What's Inside A Black Hole?

 

Most of us don’t use textbooks or rather don’t even open them except when the exam season arrives, they are just used as a way of “learning” things for the sake of academics. But sometimes during a boring lecture, we come across a word or a concept that suddenly lights up the bulb of our curiosity.

This happened to me quite a few times, and the topic I chose today is one of those “concepts that I really don’t understand but they sound cool”. Well not exactly, but yeah that was the case during my 8-9^th grade. Well then, Let’s continue with the topic.

Ever learned a mechanism or a concept from science and wondered, “How would it feel to be able to observe this from the inside?” I have always wondered how it feels to actually experience celestial occurrences or phenomena, though it’s not possible for me, or rather any human as of now to go and actually do these things in space.

One of the things that made me curious was “Black holes”. What are they exactly? Just an after-death state of a star? A Black Hole isn’t just an object but a region of space-time where gravity is so strong, nothing can pass its event horizon, Including Light and other Electromagnetic waves. This region is created when a star with huge amounts of mass (over 3 times the mass of our sun) dies and gravitational force overwhelms everything else. Imagine A star of mass thrice the mass of our sun is compressed into a small region that is probably as big as a metropolitan city.

So, what is Inside these regions of immense gravitational force, and what exactly happens inside them?
First of all, even though these are called black “holes”, they aren’t holes. Black holes only have one end, through which we may enter (hopefully in the future) the pitch-black space inside, think of it like a sock but with basically a limitless end.

 Considering you have every piece of equipment to keep you alive “inside” the black hole, you jump inside. What happens next? You will see nothing but a pitch-black space, you are unable to define what’s Up, Down, Left, Right, or any direction since there is nothing to be a “point of reference”. Inevitably you will move towards singularity. Now what is this new term? Singularity is the point where the density is considered to be infinite.

Now as you move (or rather fall) towards singularity, you won’t be seeing a pitch-black space but instead, you will be seeing the lights of the universe falling in right after you. Due to extreme gravity, the lights will be at higher frequencies, and you will be experiencing space-time dilation and feel like the universe around you is moving fast almost like someone has hit the fast-forward button. Approaching the singularity, you will be spaghettified- that is you will be squeezed and shaped like a noodle along your waist and will meet death. But let’s say somehow you survive that and actually reach singularity; it will almost feel like you have landed somewhere and yet you haven’t. Consider, you are standing on a piece of land but everything around you is pitch-black including the surface you are standing on along with extreme gravity.

And what happens after you “land”? Well, No one knows. We still have no knowledge about how these things work, or how is it experiencing them firsthand, But with the rate at which the human race is progressing, we might have an answer to this question soon enough. Until then we are free to imagine what may happen~

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