NOVA scienceNOW | What If | Black Hole

The 3rd installment of the what if series. Add your "What If" scenarios here, and the producers of NOVA scienceNOW might have Neil act out the answers.

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[TeenageAznBoy]

He makes it sound painless.

[knytebyte]

I just had spaghetti for dinner.Didnt hurt me.

[Paganfuckingsexgod]

@softwareengineer11. By the fact that we would be reduced to our basest molecular components would surely mean we could never see what's on the other side. Black holes are just pure destruction. I personally don't think anything exists other than pulverised molecules on the other side.

[DKSmith9008]

@SoftwareEngineer11

I don't think a black hole is actually a "hole" it just a massive piece of mass, that has a lot of gravity...fact check me. I'm not completely sure... I think you are thinking of a wormhole.

[doctorw2]

i call this infractualization not spaghettification

[SoftwareEngineer11]

IT still doesn' make sense! The main question which people still have is this: "What happens if you DO cross over by luck/chance? What's on the other side of BEYOND black hole?" Surely can't be nothing since there must be something

[Tedsta101]

Okay, I have a weird theory. This is the Big Bang. A giant black hole sucks up everything in the universe. Then, all of that mass would travel through time. It would go back into the beginning of time. Then, all of that mass would explode. If this sounds stupid it's because I have barely any knowledge of black holes. This is just what came to my mind when we talked a little bit about black holes in science class.

[Dude11191]

Matter is made up of particles right.And those particles consist of subjonic patricles right Such as The neutron,and the protone.And thats leads to a vibrational frequency that is out human visual spectrum.This is what the universe is made of in a bit of detail.

[killuminati331]

@TeenageAznBoy It probably is painless since this process will go so fast you will be dead in milliseconds!

[catkidtj]

ironic how theres a black guy talking about black holes

[robert66michel]

science has calculated the mass of black holes, was the mass of D.E. and D.M. entered into the eqations? and would it make a difference ?

[robert66michel]

What if? we could determine wether or not dark matter and dark energy are also being sucked into the black hole? and if not ,that should tell us a lot about the stuff.What if 70 percent of the energy comprising the universe and causing it to expand also makes up 70 percent of a black hole?no clue how that would work? I,m not ready to throw out e= mc sq. just yet, so D.E. must have mass? what if!