LESSON 4 · Black Holes: Where Physics Breaks
The Ultimate One-Way Trip
What falling in feels like depends entirely on the black hole's size:
- Stellar-mass black holes spaghettify you well outside the event horizon
- Supermassive black holes have gentle tidal forces at the horizon — you could cross without noticing
- Light bends around the hole, creating Einstein rings and distorting the sky
- Inside, the universe's future compresses into a shrinking overhead window
- All paths lead to the singularity — there is no direction called "out"
No one has tested this firsthand, and for good reason.