where does the matter go when it is sucked into a black hole?
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There are many theories regarding this subject. One being that there are "white holes" opposite the black holes, in other universes, or other parts of this one out of which the matter shoots.  But the most likely is that it gets added to the mass of the black hole, making it even more massive and dense.  So in essence it doesn't "go" anywhere, it crosses the event horizon, becomes squished and spaghettified by the immense gravity and simply becomes part of the black hole.\n-Duo
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While black holes don't explode in the classic sense of the word, as objects are drawn into them they are forced to compress beyond the ordinary forces of matter and they disintegrate into subatomic particles which give off high bursts of energy.  Typically these are X-rays and gamma rays.  In fact that is one way they have of determining the presence of Black holes.  Astronomers look for the presence of otherwise un-explained X-ray sources.
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I don't think the Heisenberg uncertainty principle would apply here, but the related Pauli Exclusion Principle might tell you something about how the masses would combine. But I seem to recall that the whole idea of a black hole is that all known mechanisms of preventing continued collapse, including the Pauli Exclusion Principle, are overcome by gravity and so all the mass of the black hole occupies an infinitely small volume. However, the event horizon, which is the distance from the center at which the escape velocity is exactly the speed of light, would get bigger. But that calculation is a simple gravity problem and does not depend on quantum mechanics at all.
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The answers you got were good and should help you understand the idea, but to specifically answer your question, the 'information' in the information paradox is just the particular pattern of stuff inherent in the matter falling into the black hole:  The particular way the atoms are arranged, the speed they're moving, their direction, etc.  All these things are specific to the individual atoms falling into the black hole and are wiped away once it falls through the event horizon of such a hole.  This doesn't mean anybody's sending notes back and forth encrypted it chunks of stuff, in this case 'information'='pattern', and that's all, nothing more.\n\nP.S. HawkinG, not HawkinS
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A blackhole is a collection of matter with gravity so immense that nothing can escape how strong the pull of it is unless when you are in it's pull you can accelerate faster than the speed of light and beyond, thus the blackhole swallows up light as well.\n\nWhat happens is large masses collapse under their own weight. Think of a house of cards. The more you pile on, the greater the weight becomes until the cards on the bottom can't take the weight anymore. When the house of cards falls, the cards still exist but have lost their structure do to gravity.\n\nNow instead of a house of cards, replace that with an enormous sun that has tons of matter inside. The sun is teetering on the brink of collapsing as the matter inside grows and grows until eventually, like the house of cards, it falls down. Except since this is a sphere in space is is being pulled inward by it's onw gravity, and not down like earth gravity, the sun doesn't fall down, it falls IN.\n\nWhen this does happen the gravity doesn't stop existing because the matter doesn't either, it becomes smaller and the gravity grows as it pulls larger and larger amounts of matter into it's core. Eventually it because so dense and so massive and so small that the gravity involved will not allow even Photons, or light particles, the fastest thing in the universe to pass through it.\n\nThere ya have it!
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Eric Jaffe-Magnetic Thrust: Fields force matter into black holes\n\nLike a child scared to dive into a pool, cosmic matter needs one last push to plunge into a black hole. New observations confirm that magnetic fields provide this final galactic shove. \n\n The observations come from a system in the Milky Way called GRO J1655-40, which consists of a black hole and a normal star. Gas from the star is pulled toward the black hole, where it forms what's called an accretion disk. Angular momentum—the same property that keeps Earth from diving into the sun—keeps the disk revolving around the black hole instead of falling into it. \n\nUnless something knocked them off course, the gases in the disk would continue to circle the black hole forever. "To get matter in toward the black hole, we have to change the orbits in the disk," says study leader Jon Miller of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Until now, scientists weren't sure whether magnetic fields, radiation pressure, or heat alter the orbit and trigger that fall. \n\nUsing NASA's Chandra satellite observatory, Miller's team collected data on X rays emitted from the J1655 system. They found that the X rays came from a wind blowing from the disk, so some force must propel the wind past the black hole's gravitational pull. After simulating the wind on a computer, the researchers conclude that only magnetic fields could create such a force, they report in the June 22 Nature. \n\nThe team had ruled out a wind fueled by heat from the core of the disk or by pressure from radiation blasting out of the disk. A heat-driven wind would have been hotter than the one that the researchers observed, and radiation pressure is too weak to drive that wind. \n\n"Magnetic pressure really was the only viable means remaining," Miller says. \n\nSuch pressure could upset the gas disk's orbit in two ways. The magnetic fields could push the wind outward like a spring, or the force of the spinning disk could fling the wind away from the disk's center. Either disruption of the disk's orbit would cause some matter to spiral downward. \n\nMiller's team appears to prefer the first scenario, says Roger Blandford of Stanford University. Blandford prefers the second, which he describes as an organized magnetic slingshot. "I suspect there are different answers in different types of systems," he says. "But on the face of it, this looks like a big advance observationally." \n\nThough most astrophysicists expected magnetic fields to play a role in black holes, the finding is "very important evidence that what we thought before makes sense," says Avi Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. "It's the first time there's clear evidence for wind coming off an accretion disk." \n\nThe finding could help astrophysicists understand the complex give-and-take between galaxies and black holes,
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Things that enter a black hole do not "implode," and black holes and the big bang are two uttern non-connected things.\n\nshort answer day!
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A black hole is not actually a hole, but a physical object in space, consisting of ultra compact particals, contained in such a small area that thier gravitational pull is much stronger than any other celestial body of comperable size....  Basically you put all the matter and gravitational pull from a large star into the volume of a small moon... particles captured by a black hole are crushed and added to its composition. This in theory includes photons (light and other energy)as well.  As for whether black holes are hoax's or not.. the answer is no... we can see their effects on star near them, including gases that are syphoned, and other gravitational interactions.  Additionally when matter approaches a black hole and is accellerated, it reaches an energy level at the even horizon where xrays are emited, but not captured, which in turn we can also detect.  Though there is much we do not know about them, they definately exist, and most likely in much greater numbers than we oringinally thought.
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Any matter that falls into the black hole adds to the mass of the black hole.  It just doesn't vanish.
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"...Does the black hole continue to increase in mass and increase the gravitational affect?..."\nWe haven't been studying black holes long enough yet to determine if their mass does increase from all the material being drawn in. Theoretically it would.\n\n"...does all that stuff get shot out in another direction?..."\nExactly what happens to material that disappears beyond the event horizon of black holes isn't known for sure because there's no way science can observe what goes on there. A few speculations persist about so-called  'white holes,' the drain of black holes where everything re-appears in another universe or dimension.\n\n"...Do black holes ever die? And if so, what happens to them?..."\nAgain, science doesn't know because the observational evidence just isn't there. However, Stephen Hawking has developed a workable theory showing that over great lengths of time black holes can actually radiate some of their energy and in time would evaporate.
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no. The definition of black hole is that what comes in, never comes out anymore.\n\n"What goes in must come out?" is a saying, not a law of physics
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Black holes are huge concentrations of mass in a very small area.  So small that it is too small to contain conventional matter as we understand it.  There is a perimeter around a black hole known as the event horizon.  Beyond this point, nothing, not even light can escape the gravitational pull of a black hole.  If you were to be able to stand on the event horizon and have telescopic vision like Superman, looking tangent to the event horizon, you would see the back of your head.
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Sorry to Sun of Samsa.  I meant to give you a thumbs up!  The Black Hole Singularity is infinitely small (infinite density and ZERO volume).  The effects of the hole can be miles or light years across!
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Far from disprove it, this is in fact what astronomers theorizes occur at the so called "event horizon" of a black hole.  This theoretical sphere surrounds the black hole at a distance determined by its mass (the greater the mass, the larger the event horizon).  Any light that crosses into the sphere becomes drawn inward by the gravitational pull of the black hole, but light rays that are perfectly tangential to the event horizon become trapped in orbit.  This can only occur around a black hole, as a gravitational pull that can create such an orbital path must require that any paths within said orbit are inescapable.
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you get a black hole.
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unless this is a "zen" question, it doesn't "go" anywhere.  A black hole is a former star that has died and collapsed in upon itself and had its mass "infinitely" compressed into a tiny tiny volume.
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try here\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole