Has anyone ever thought of what black holes really are?

I feel like I’m living in a black hole, which just keeps getting blacker.

I think it tears your body apart till each individual cell is floating around, because of the pull being so strong BUT it is so fast and strong you felt like it never happened.

and then! you warp to the other side of space or black whole I should say?And die because you are human and need oxygen. The end :)

Did I mention it’s a slow painful, suffocating, lonely death? I mean it is space….

wow…......just…...wow

@Aaronanswer you did ask…..lol :D

Chevy Chase & Steve Martin can be found loitering up Richard Pryors’.

The intense gravity is going to affect time. The closer to the gravitational source, the slower percieved (or actual?) time progresses. Although your atoms (plasma?) will eventually be plating the gravitational source, it may take a subjective infinity to reach there.

“Has anyone ever thought of what black holes really are?”

Gee, you know, just maybe, some physicists and astronomers have put a little bit of mental effort into this question after having, you know, given the phenomenon a name, or something. There might, and I am just speculating wildly here, be a Wikipedia article on this.

This is a dumb question and I really know nothing of black holes but we are just spit balling ideas around…....Why don’t we just send a wireless camera into the black hole to see what would happen?

the most intelligent astrophysists Steven Hawking himself can only speculate to the true nature of super massive blackholes

Four out of five dentists say that no one has ever thought about a black hole, but that no one has managed to avoid thinking of a yo-yo while standing in the bathroom and counting down from 10 to 1.

Aren’t black holes created when a star goes supernova?

Also I heard that black holes remove time and space, but white holes spit it back out.

Black holes: thought of since 1783.

Maybe it’s God’s funny little way of telling cosmologists how dense they are.

Black Holes are God’s vacuum cleaners for re-cycling. He gathers all the space debri up, when there is enough….... he spits it back out.
Kinda like a butterfly after coming out of it’s cocoon. Or a great filtering system.
All galaxies have a vacuum cleaner included sometimes more than one.
How’s that for breaking it all the way down….............??

Half of the people here have asked or answered a similar question. Not exactly answered, as I think about it. Speculated, perhaps.

When it was first introduced, >50% of Harvard pre-med students taking their required physics course failed a basic concept inventory test given at the end of the semester. (0:28:00) Most had been getting by through the rote application of recipes to generate numerical answers to set problem types. To them Newtonian mechanics remained a black box that had little impact on their underlying modes of thought. Their professor characterizes their view of the world as still Aristotelian.

Now, how many of you out there feel up to a round of advanced placement high school physics? Most of the Harvard pre-meds would have taken and scored very well in their AP physics. And yet they had really absorbed none of it.

Now consider the leap represented by Einstein’s general relativity, which took him a rather painful decade to formulate after his deceptively simple breakthrough with special relativity. He required tensor calculus, which he claimed to understand only at moments when he had exceptional clarity of mind (for him!).

(... and I am glossing over the reformulation of Newtonian mechanics into classical Hamiltonian mechanics, a topic I never got formally exposed to as a mere engineering student…)

I submit if your conceptual understanding of the world hasn’t yet fully encompassed Newton, then “spit balling” ideas regarding black holes is pretty futile.

Physicists think about it all the time. As long as we don’t have a quantum theory of gravity we can’t really answer the question of a singularity inside a black hole.