These mfers are like glitches in reality. Even trying to wrap my head around wtf they are freaks me out. How the hell can there be a thing in this universe that has infinite density? That doesn't even make sense.

Ugh

  • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Still the most terrifying way to die I can imagine is falling into a supermassive black hole.

    On a regular stellar mass black hole, the point at which it rips you apart atom-by-atom due to the difference in force being exerted on one end of your body versus the opposite end by gravity (a process lovingly referred to as "spaghettification") exists outside the event horizon, so you're dead long before you reach the point of no return. Still horrifying beyond measure, but at least it's a quick death.

    On a supermassive black hole, however, the event horizon is so obscenely massive that you hit it before you get spaghettified, which means someone falling into one could theoretically fall past the event horizon without dying first and indeed might actually die of dehydration/starvation before reaching a point where gravity tears you apart if it's big enough. What would you experience? Would the neurons in your brain just stop working from physics breaking down, or would you exist in an infinite plane of pure darkness just wondering when it's going to end with no warning, or something else entirely?

      • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        I've been stressing like this almost non stop since my mom got diagnosed with cancer. I don't need a black hole to be horrified by dying

    • D61 [any]
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      1 year ago

      Oh no, OH SHIT!

      MR. CORBYN, YOU'R TOO CLOSE TO THE BLACK HOLE!

      long-corbyn

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      you couldn't fall into a black hole as you got close the gravity would spin you around and throw you away before you got close enough to be sucked near

    • captcha [any]
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      1 year ago

      I'm gonna go with you dying because your neurons dont work and call it a day.

      The real worry is how will you time dialation as you approach the event horizion?