Can you go back in time through a black hole?

Absolutely. If we could travel close to the speed of light, or in the proximity of a black hole, time would slow down enabling us to travel arbitrarily far into the future.

What would happen if you passed through a black hole?

Of course, no matter what type of black hole you fall into, you’re ultimately going to get torn apart by the extreme gravity. No material, especially fleshy human bodies, could survive intact. So once you pass beyond the edge of the event horizon, you’re done. There’s no getting out.

Can you go back to the past in a black hole?

Hang around an area with extreme gravity for a while. You can’t go back into the past, but if you got close enough to a black hole, you could travel to the future. This isn’t a feature limited to black holes—it can happen wherever there’s enough gravity.

Could Earth and the entire universe be inside a black hole?

A physicist claimed that Earth and the entire universe could already be inside a black hole. According to the physicist, this theory is related to the idea that the Big Bang was actually a black hole.

What happens to a star when it falls into a black hole?

The star was stretched out and shredded, causing some of the material to fall beyond the event horizon, while the rest was flung back out into space. In contrast to falling into a stellar-mass black hole, your experience plunging into a supermassive or intermediate-mass black hole would be slightly less nightmarish.

What are some common misconceptions about black holes?

Here are some common misconceptions. We tend to imagine black holes as black spheres in the middle of space. But not all black holes fit this description, because light can still be emitted from the region outside the event horizon. GLOSSARY quasars a massive celestial object that emits huge amounts of energy.