• Question: If you went inside a black hole and was somehow intact at any point would you move as fast or faster than the speed of light.

    Asked by WilliamK to Samuel, Robson, Reshma, raam, K-Jo, Alison on 9 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: K-Jo O'Flynn

      K-Jo O'Flynn answered on 9 Nov 2018:


      With a black whole, everything gets dragged into it and because nothing can go the speed of light, it just gets dragged deeper and deeper into the black whole. This is because of the boundary called the “Event Horizon”. 😀

    • Photo: Reshma Vora

      Reshma Vora answered on 9 Nov 2018:


      nothing can go as fast as the speed of light that we are aware of

    • Photo: Alison Dufresne

      Alison Dufresne answered on 13 Nov 2018:


      I think the short answer is – we don’t know.
      We can’t see into a black hole because it pulls in all the light and with it, most of the information about what’s happening in there. There are some great theories but we’ll have to advance spaceflight and our knowledge of physics a w’hole’ (excuse the pun) lot before we can even hope to answer that question!

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