I am not sure you can do anything at that point.

Wouldn't that be a great way to go out though. Joining the singularity of a black hole.

[edit on 8/28/2008 by maria_stardust]

Please pardon my sidestepping your question. But if you want to survive, you do not cross the event horizon. The event horizon is a product of riding the spiral in. At least the one you would cross is.

You go straight into the black hole well away from the wall. The tremendous forces and energy are all pulled along the spiral plane of the wall. Space itself if stretched and twisted along the curve of the wall.

Think of it as a blender where the blades are along the edge of the container, and the container rotates around it's contents.
You don't want to be part of the contents, you want to go down the middle where there are no contents because they are all pulled out to the sides by the rotational forces.



[edit on 29-8-2008 by Cyberbian]

i hear ya bro,

but the situation is you are accidentally landed in the hole.. you are now there..
what do ya do..

sit around and enjoy the view for as long as possible or

hope for a quick painless death..

i have been wondering though with all the spagettification and streatching would ya end up with a body millions of km long??

perhaps while in that density you may not feel the body streatch..

time as i understand it in the hole slows down so changes from the perspective of being in the hole would be of infinataly long.. you probably wouldn't notice being stretched..

i like the idea of the free fall to the center..
reminds be a bit of life hehe..


cheerz for responses

daz__

Originally posted by daz__
i have been wondering though with all the spagettification and streatching would ya end up with a body millions of km long??

It depends on the kind of black hole you're approaching. The radiation environment surrounding the hole is probably more likely to kill you as you approach a supermassive black hole than tidal forces. Why? Because you won't feel severe tidal forces until you're about 600,000km out from a supermassive's center of gravity; that means you entered the event horizon already. But understand something, if you fell into the hole from a rest point at ten times the supermassive hole's Schwarzschild radius you'd have 7 seconds from the event horizon before you hit the singularity, not much time no matter what you do.

A smaller black hole that you might find elsewhere in the galaxy will have a smaller event horizon though, which allows you to feel enough tidal forces to rip you apart before you get close enough to enter the event horizon. Let's say you find one with 30 solar masses. At the event horizon you'd be feeling a tidal force of 1 MILLION g's! For a 30,000 solar mass black hole you'd only be dealing with less than 1 g though (that's just the difference between the gravity at your head and toes, not the total gravity pulling you of course).

[edit on 29-8-2008 by ngchunter]