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"To astronauts who ask whether they can get out of a black hole, physicists can answer, “Sure!” But if the astronauts ask how to do it, the disquieting reply wi
by thyrsus 6y ago
"To astronauts who ask whether they can get out of a black hole, physicists can answer, “Sure!” But if the astronauts ask how to do it, the disquieting reply will be: “No clue.”"
My intuition is that these astronauts would exit the black hole the way a candle exits a flame, i.e., at the atomic or subatomic level, correct?
- kazagistar 6y agoThey would exit as a stream of extremely small and infrequent particles over billions or even trillions of years, depending on the size of the black hole, in most cases ending once all the stars have died and universal expansion has emptied out almost all of the accessible universe.