• Question: What happens when you go through a black hole?

    Asked by hparker to Ezzy, Ben, Clare, Mario, Sam on 14 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by jneedham, cherryboop, chloe1999.
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      Elizabeth Pearson answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      It’s not so much going through, as going into. A black hole is a very dense lump of stuff. So dense not even light can escape. Gravity is so strong that all the laws of physics start to break down so we’re not exactly sure what happens in there. What we do know is that it wouldn’t end well for someone. Gravity is enough to pull the electrons from the atoms in your body…

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