Expert: Jayendra Upadhye - 5/21/2008

Question
Thanks for your time. Do you think we could ever build a machine that would take pictures and film, like some of the machines that explore the planets, but would go into a black whole and show astronaunts what happens inside for a split second?

Answer
Hi,
No Josh, Such a thing can only exist in SF. Where you have spaceships with force shields etc.
In real life, everything that APPROACEHS the black hole is pulverised by the roche's limit that states that any multiparticle body approaching within that limit will be pulverised.

The underlying cause is gravitational tides!
[refer:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche_limit]
The grim but gentle warning is faced by earth for billions of years every day, as we "enjoy" or "suffer" the tides depending on their severity and our tolerance limits!! :)

The gentle daily reminder of this 'hole effect' on incoming matter is for everyone to feel and study! And the sun that powers it all is 93 million miles away!!

It is like saying the longer we live, the closer we are to death!
Life is a gentle & constant reminder of death!

So are the tides!

Gravity!
This is what creates the accretion disks around the event horizons of black holes.
Pulverised matter in the disk undergoes intense frictional heating as it spirals inward, emitting x-rays. (compton's effect).

So you get the picture.
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regards
Jayen