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  • black holes heart exactly a popular vacation destination.

  • They feed on anything and everything that comes into the vicinity.

  • They're dense and unpredictably volatile, and they don't let anything I mean, anything escape their gravitational grasp.

  • Going to the event horizon of a black hole would be a very daring, dangerous experience.

  • Let's get to it already.

  • This is what if and here's what would happen if you traveled to a black hole.

  • Not all black holes are the same.

  • Some of them are relatively small, reaching only 10 to 20 times the mass of our sun.

  • There are millions of them in the Milky Way alone.

  • Then there are truly gravitational giants, supermassive black holes, and they are called supermassive for nothing.

  • They can grow millions of times the mass of our sun, and they're lurking at the center of almost every galaxy, including our own.

  • Choosing a black hole to travel to is the first thing you need to do before jumping into a spaceship.

  • Where would you find yourself a black hole that wouldn't gobble you up the second you arrive in its territory, And how close could you get?

  • Tau one.

  • Before it squeezed and stretched and turned you into spaghetti.

  • I hope you've seen enough.

  • What if stories by now to know that a black hole isn't something you can see with your own eyes?

  • What you would see is stars collapsing into it because black holes swallow everything they can reach with their gravity there especially hard to catch on camera.

  • This is the first and only picture of a black hole we have so far.

  • It shows the orbit of photons around a supermassive black hole in the galaxy.

  • Messier 87 and it took eight huge telescopes across the Earth.

  • Five days of observing and two years of combining the signals together to produce this one image.

  • So maybe you won't need to bring your camera with you this time.

  • Okay, Now let me pick a black hole for you.

  • I suggest the nearest one V 616 monastery Rodas or simply V 616 months.

  • It's only 3000 light years away, and it has the mass of 9 to 13 times that of our sun.

  • Now, even if you could thrust through space at the speed of light, it would still take you 3000 years to reach V 616 months.

  • Our universe is just too enormous to travel around.

  • That means only one thing you'd have to jump toe thousands of years into the future, where there might be the technology to get close enough to your destination.

  • But no, it's not time for that.

  • What if story just yet.

  • Let's keep heading towards V 616 month.

  • This is where the fun part begins.

  • As you're heading towards V 616 months, even as you're light years away from it, you start feeling the black hole's effects.

  • Better put your shades on because while black holes don't admit in a light, they attract a lot of stars.

  • It would be a non stop cascade of light, and according to Stephen Hawking, there would be radiation to.

  • It would also be getting quite hot.

  • Black holes are freezing cold on the inside, some black holes.

  • Internal temperature could drop toe only 11 millionth of a degree above absolute zero.

  • But on the outside, black holes have neutrino particles constantly colliding with each other and radioactivity heating their surroundings to millions of degrees.

  • This is the part where you should be totally toasted but I don't want to stop the story from getting to its destination.

  • You've already traveled thousands of light years.

  • What's a little heat, anyway?

  • It didn't stop Stephen Hawking from traveling tow, one of his most favorite places in the universe.

  • Hypothetically, of course, the greatest physicist of our time toured the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

  • And that wasn't the only place he visited you conjoined upon his adventures in a documentary from Our Friends at Curiosity Street.

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  • What if, during the sign up process for a deeper look at some of the topics we cover here at what if And don't worry, I didn't forget about you approaching the black hole can you hear me?

  • Sorry.

  • I forgot to mention the clouds of radiation and particles.

  • Thes clouds of hawking radiation would also be forming magnetic fields, throwing debris around at the speed of light.

  • How much closer could you get to the black hole?

  • After all, you don't want to fall into it.

  • Just visit.

  • Let's see the distance between a black hole's event horizon and its singularity is referred to as its shorts Shield radius.

  • After the German physicist and astronomer Carl Schwartz chilled, Schwartz Field Radius defines the size of a black hole's event horizon, a boundary beyond which you wouldn't be affected by a black hole as long as you stay on the opposite side of it.

  • The closest you could get to a black hole without being sucked in would be two times the Schwartz field radius.

  • But if you're looking to observe from a stable orbit, you'd better stay a distance of three times the Schwartz Shield radius.

  • And if you wanted to get back home safely, this is about as far as you could go.

  • Coming any closer to a black hole would start spaghetti if eyeing you at an increasing rate.

  • But that's a story for another.

black holes heart exactly a popular vacation destination.

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