What Happens When You Fall Into a Black Hole?

Requirements
Make a 2-5 minute movie trailer about what would happen if someone fell into a black hole. Create the script to your trailer on GoogleDocs. Create a story board using Prezi. Upload your finished video to a Weebly site.

Information Requirements
Students must include the scientific definition of a black hole. Students must include how black holes are created. Students must include 2-3 additional interesting facts about black holes. Students must include what would happen if someone fell into a black hole.

What is a Black Hole?

A black hole is an object that is so compact (in other words, has enough mass in a small enough volume) that its gravitational force is strong enough to prevent light or anything else from escaping.

How are Black Holes created?

When a very massive star exhausts its nuclear fuel it explodes as a supernova. The outer parts of the star are expelled violently into space, while the core completely collapses under its own weight. If the core remaining after the supernova is very massive (more than 2.5 times the mass of the Sun), no known repulsive force inside a star can push back hard enough to prevent gravity from completely collapsing the core into a black hole.

What happens when you fall into a Black Hole?

As you fall toward the black hole, you move faster and faster, accelerated by its gravity. Your feet feel a stronger gravitational pull than your head, because they are closer to the black hole. As a result, your body is stretched apart. For small black holes, this stretching is so strong that your body is completely torn apart before you reach the event horizon. If you fall into a supermassive black hole, your body remains intact, even as you cross the event horizon. But soon thereafter you reach the central singularity, where you are squashed into a single point of infinite density. You have become one with the black hole. Unfortunately, you are unable to write home about the experience.

How to find Additional Interesting Facts

Resources: http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/blac k_holes/home.html http://hubblesite.org/reference_desk/faq/ans wer.php.id=56&cat=exotic