What is Black Hole
A black hole is a region of the Universe where gravity is so extreme that it is impossible to escape from.
The closer you get, the faster you need to travel in order to successfully run in the opposite direction.
But get too close – past a boundary known as the ‘event horizon’ – and you’ll need to travel faster than the speed of light to flee.
As far as we know this is impossible and so your fate is sealed: the mega gravity of the black hole will tear you limb-from-limb in a process known as ‘spaghettification’.
According to our best theory of gravity, Einstein’s theory of general relativity, your spaghettified body would eventually end up at a ‘singularity’ – an infinitely small and dense point at the ‘bottom’ of the black hole.
Indeed, the very notions of space and time cease to exist at a singularity and any traces of you will be erased from the Universe.
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