4/28/2023 0 Comments Flight sucked into a black hole![]() ![]() Credit: Victor de Schwanberg/Science Photo Library Artist’s conception of the event horizon of a black hole. If they could still see you past this point, there would be additional red from the inside of you clouding up the view. Your friend would see you redden and dim as you approach, but never quite reach, the event horizon of the black hole. So as you approached the black hole you would appear more and more reddish, and your image would appear dimmer and dimmer. As you fall towards it, gravity would cause any light coming from you to be redshifted. ![]() Why won’t you ever listen?Ī friend watching you fall toward a black hole would never see you reach the black hole. You wouldn’t survive falling toward a black hole because you wouldn’t listen. I’ve made up some other names for it, such as My Own Private String Cheese Incident, “the soft-serve effect” and “AAAHHHHH AHHHH MY LEGS MY LEGS!!!”. This effect of tidal stretching is sometimes boringly referred to as spaghettification. Eventually the tidal forces would become so strong that they would rip you apart. Because of the tidal forces it would feel as if you are being stretched head to toe, while your sides would feel like they are being pushed inward. These differences in forces are called tidal forces. As you got closer, your feet would feel a stronger force than your head, for example. Suppose you were falling feet first toward a black hole. Technically this is always true, but you wouldn’t notice it… at least at first. As you get closer, the gravitational forces on various parts of your and your dragon’s body would be different. But, as we’ve agreed, you’re ignoring my advice and flying dragon first into this physics nightmare. The gravity of a black hole is just like the gravity of any other large mass, as long as you don’t get too close. If you were falling toward a black hole, most of the time you would simply feel weightless, just as if you were playing Bowie songs and floating in a most peculiar way in the International Space Station.
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