• Question: what do you think lies inside a black hole?

    Asked by Rocketmanspencer to Jackie, Michele, Oliver, Vicky, Yelong on 9 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Oliver Brown

      Oliver Brown answered on 9 Mar 2015:

      I realise this is a somewhat disappointing answer, but it sort of doesn’t matter! If our theories on black holes are correct there is completely no way for any information about anything inside a black hole to escape it. It’s as close to completely gone from the universe as anything could be. I mean, presumably the remains of whatever formed the black hole are still inside there somewhere, but other than that, who knows? Maybe something incredible, maybe nothing at all.

      On the plus side, you could also interpret this answer as ‘whatever you’d like to imagine’ 😀 that’s why sci-fi writers like black holes so much I think

    • Photo: Vicky Bayliss

      Vicky Bayliss answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      True Oliver.

      I think I like this answer best…

      http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/02/140218-black-hole-blast-explains-big-bang/

    • Photo: Michele Faucci Giannelli

      Michele Faucci Giannelli answered on 11 Mar 2015:

      We know that part of the mass of the star that generated the black hole is inside it. We also know that the back holes can actually lose some of this mass by Hawking radiation. We know that the space time is so warped that the law of physics we know do not make sense in there.
      So nothing we can experience will probably describe the inside of a black hole. I still hope in some incredible answer provided by our colleagues working in string theory or quantum gravity.

    • Photo: Jaclyn Bell

      Jaclyn Bell answered on 13 Mar 2015:

      The reason we don’t know whats inside a black hole is because if we were to get too close we would be sucked in and any signal we tried to send back to Earth to tell people what was inside wouldn’t be strong enough to get out of the black hole to get back to Earth 🙁 They may be able to contact us but we couldn’t contact them. Black holes don’t even let light escape and thats the fastest thing we know! I’d like to think that inside is actually a worm hole and that we come out the other side in one piece but on the opposite side of our universe – that would be awesome – but I don’t have any scientific evidence to back this up – just a lot of sci-fi films 😉

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