• Question: whats at the bottom of a black hole, where does everything go after being sucked into a black hole, does it just get dissected into millions of microscopic pieces

    Asked by jodlington to Kate, Kieren, Nicola, Rowena, Roy on 14 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by zoshbosh23, .
    • Photo: Kate Nicholson

      Kate Nicholson answered on 14 Mar 2014:

      It gets super squished, more than we can imagine, because everything that is matter is mostly empty space, so there is a lot of room to squash it. When some bits of matter get too close to be squashed any closer then you get some interesting reactions of matter being annihilated and turned into energy. The steps after that I’m not sure we have the physics to explain yet, and we can’t observe them because not even the light can escape the black hole which is how we observe the rest of the universe.

    • Photo: Rowena Fletcher-Wood

      Rowena Fletcher-Wood answered on 14 Mar 2014:

      You’ll’ve learnt that atoms occupy their own space and have a size. They are made of electrons circling round a nucleus. Well, when they go into a black hole atoms get so compressed they start overlappibg and then merging together into a giant atomic soup. And they just keep getting tighter and tighter and smaller and smaller and we can no longer observe them and measure them as we don’t even know what we are (and definitely can’t get to tthem!).

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