Just what does one see when one is sitting in a black hole? For some odd reason, this thought popped into my head recently. For those few of you who don't know what a black hole is, it is an extremely dense mass where the gravity is so strong that not even light can escape. Now that you are enlightened, what do you think someone who is sitting in a black hole would see? Everything? Nothing? Donald Trump's hair?

some weird theories about black holes are that they, because they are supposed to be spinning and get sucked toward one point, don't collapse into a sphere. Somebody once said that they might collapse into a torus (donut-shaped ring) because the centrifugal force tries to make it fly outward and it starts spinning faster as it shrinks.

The same magazine also theorixed that maybe they are just "fuzzballs," that affect light like lenses and don't have some nasty gravity.

I dunno. I can't even remember where I heard this stuff. I was in th library with time to kill, so I read a magazine.

Hahahaha, hair. Doesn't it turn out that the "no hair" result isn't actually true and that there is a way for information to escape the event horizon? I forget, next time I read something by Hawking, I'll do it before midnight.

At any rate, you technically wouldn't see jack sh** as you would have been ripped apart atom by atom and squeezed into an infinitely dense mass, but supposing that you managed to keep your vision during all of this, I think you'd probably see other mass getting stretched out and torn apart, but it probably wouldn't look like much as I would guess everything would be rushing towards the singularity really fast. That or you wouldn't be able to view anything for some reason I can't think of right now.

Hmm.. That is pretty interesting.. Seeing a beam of light bend.. Wow.. that would be amazing.. But its not like you would be able to tell anyone about it because..heh..you would then be sucked into the black hole.

i think when you're looking into a black hole, you see nothing and everything at the same time. I say screw theories of relativity, my life is a black hole right now and i see everything.

Well, if you are on the event horizon and are looking out at the matter being sucked into the black hole, wouldn't you see it all as it comes toward you? But yes, you would not see anything looking at the black hole unless you are right at the event horizon because any and all light that is emitted from the hole is immediately sucked right back in. Relativity really screws with your mind.

you dont see anything. right when you're at the edge you will see beams of light actually bend. Thats how powerfull black holes are.

http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/schw.shtml