What will happen if astronaut falls into black hole? NASA finds answer. Watch video of simulation it made

What will happen if you fall into a black hole? Have you ever thought about it? The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has tried to answer this question that too in a very interesting way, reports 'space.com'. The US space agency has used one of its supercomputers to create a visualization of a one-way plunge.

What is a black hole?

First, let me tell you what is a black hole. In short and without any technical jargon, a black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light or other electromagnetic waves, is capable of possessing enough energy to escape it. The boundary of no escape is called the 'event horizon'. A black hole affects an object crossing it, but it has no locally detectable features.

'Event Horizon'

Thus, 'event horizon' is the point of no return past which no distant observer can ever recover information. NASA simulated two different scenarios, one where a camera, a stand-in for a daring astronaut misses the event horizon and slingshots back out. In another scenario, an astronaut crosses the boundary.

Astronaut becomes a 'noodle'?

As the astronaut falls toward the heart of the black hole, the gravitational forces increase to the point that tidal forces are so intense that an object is stretched vertically and squashed horizontally. Consequently, a star or an astronaut is tuned into a noodle or "spaghettified." The astronaut will die of course.

If the black hole has more mass, its event horizon is located farther from its singularity. In this case, its event horizon is located. That means the astronaut would have the chance to pass the event horizon before meeting their grisly fate.

According to 'space.com', it is a one-way trip to the central singularity of the black hole after crossing the event horizon. After that The infinitesimally small point of infinite density at which all the physics of the known universe break down.

Massive data generated

Discover supercomputer located at NASA's Center for Climate Simulation created the simulations of the tour of the black hole. It generated data of 10 terabytes. NASA claims that it is equivalent to half of the text found in the Library of Congress.

Simulations for five days

NASA ran the simulations for five days on Discover, accounting for 0.35 of the supercomputer's 129,000 processors. It would take a commercial laptop around 10 years to create the same simulations.

FAQs

What is a black hole?
A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light or other electromagnetic waves, is capable of possessing enough energy to escape it.

What is the NASA simulation of a black hole?
Discover supercomputer located at NASA's Center for Climate Simulation created the simulations of the tour of the black hole. It generated data of 10 terabytes. NASA claims that it is equivalent to half of the text found in the Library of Congress.