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Well, no, for more than one reason. First, for the water, time doesn't stop. Chances are it wouldn't even know it surpassed the event horizon (you know, if it c
by remuskaos 2y ago
Well, no, for more than one reason. First, for the water, time doesn't stop. Chances are it wouldn't even know it surpassed the event horizon (you know, if it could actually experience anything). For an external observer, it would crawl to a halt just outside the event horizon until it simply fades from vision.
Then gravitational tidal forces aren't strictly a uniform compression, on the contrary. Since gravity increases by 1/r^2, the part of the water drop that's closest to the black hole would experience largest force. That tears everything apart, so the water would be more dispersed instead of compressed. While I haven't done the math (and don't know if I even still could), I'd assume that gravity would quickly overcome Van Der Waals forces that holds the water molecules together, so it'd probably closer to water vapour than liquid.
And lastly, once it finally reaches the singularity, all bets are off. As far as I'm aware we have no idea what happens to matter in a singularity apart from contributing to its mass.