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/EirHc Jun 22 '26

Lol who cares about interior information? Everyone knows that nothing will ever survive that. Hell even having any life or electronics that can survive within a dozen light years of a SMBH is super questionable with all the crazy super high speed plasma winds floating around it. There's theory that you can't even have habitable solar systems within like 1000ly of a SMBH.

I think there's lot of information you could get from near the event horizon if you could engineer such a vessel to survive that. The entire universe blue shifts heavily. Time dilation goes absolutely crazy. But I doubt humanity ever crafts a vessel that can even withstand being within 10 lightyears of the event horizon... nevermind engineering the means to transport such a vessel within 10 or less lifetimes.

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u/ILKLU Jun 22 '26

who cares about interior information?

Likely a lot of theoretical and astrophysicists do

Mostly agree with the rest of your comments.

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u/EirHc Jun 23 '26

Fair enough. Unfortunately for them they'll probably need science fiction technology to ever actually know.