Into a Blackhole

[Trance750]

Originally Posted by Brian.Pearson

I definitely believe a star would fall into a black hole, and that it would be ripped to pieces. This black hole will be spewing x-rays for awhile, maybe into next year at least.

To which I have a question: If not even light can escape a black hole, how do X-Ray streams do it?

[Glitch]

Originally Posted by lentzr

I have always wondered about something...Now I know that anything that falls into a blackhole would be ripped into an almost infinite amount of sub-atomic particles. I know that. However, let's just say that it was somehow possible to build a craft so strong, the force of gravity of even a blackhole could not tear it apart. Lets's say we sent that probe into the blackhole. Where would it go?

It would go no where. It would merely add the mass of the black hole.

[Lunar Delta]

If you had a totally indestructible ship, you would remain at the exact center of the black hole... forever.

Originally Posted by Trance750

To which I have a question: If not even light can escape a black hole, how do X-Ray streams do it?

They don't come out of the hole, but rather, as Wikipedia puts it, are hypothesized to be caused by the "twisting of magnetic fields in the accretion disk collimating the outflow along the rotation axis of the central object".