• Question: What's inside a black hole?

    Asked by Pizza to Jos, Kate, Lisa on 20 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Joshaniel Cooper

      Joshaniel Cooper answered on 20 Nov 2014:

      A black hole is actually infinitely small, so you can’t really have anything inside it. However, there is a region where light can’t escape from known as the event horizon, beyond this point nothing can ever escape, and it would be the bit where it would look black. According to most theories, it wouldn’t actually look very different from the space outside it, but space and time would be switched around (I really don’t know what that would be like though).

    • Photo: Kate Dobson

      Kate Dobson answered on 20 Nov 2014:

      This is a bit outside my speciality so I’m not going to add anything to Jos’s answer

    • Photo: Lisa Simmons

      Lisa Simmons answered on 20 Nov 2014:

      I didn’t have anything to add to Jos’ answer, but I found this cool lecture of Stephen Hawkings online

      http://www.hawking.org.uk/into-a-black-hole.html

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