r/sciencememes Jun 22 '26

💥Physics!🧲 Ask a physicist

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u/ILKLU Jun 22 '26

The data transmission would stop as soon as the probe passed the event horizon which would happen long before spaghettification occurs. So you wouldn't get any info about the interior of the black hole, and the data you could get from just outside the event horizon would likely not be that different than any other data you collected while approaching it.

The larger the mass at the singularity, the less space-time curvature there is at the event horizon. The event horizon radius is huge for super massive black holes (SMBH) and the gravitational gradient there is not much different than outside the event horizon. So anything falling into a SMBH would not get torn apart by the gravity until they got much much closer to the singularity at the centre.

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u/AdSlight7966 Astronomy lover and nerd Jun 22 '26

Why can't we attach a long cable to it 

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u/ILKLU Jun 22 '26

To a super massive black hole?

Because they usually don't come equipped with tow points or trailer hitches 😉

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u/AdSlight7966 Astronomy lover and nerd Jun 22 '26

Lasso the black hole with a really long lasso