How an Astronaut Falling Into a Black Hole Would Die Part 2

First time accepted submitter ydrozd writes "Until recently, most physicists believed that an observer falling into a black hole would experience nothing unusual when crossing its event horizon. As has been previously mentioned on Slashdot, there is a strong argument, initially based on observing an entangled pair at the event horizon, that suggests that the unfortunate observer would instead be burned up by a high energy quanta (a.k.a "firewall") just before crossing the black hole's event horizon. A new paper significantly improves the argument by removing reliance on quantum entanglement. The existence of black hole "firewalls" is a rare breakthrough in theoretical physics."

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Re:So what should the family do?

[wonkey_monkey]

I love how we treat blackholes specially.

Why shouldn't we? They're extremely interesting.

For some reason, we teach kids and adults that blackholes are "evil" and suck up everything

At least that's less wrong than declaring that:

getting mass to 1/3 the speed of light is absolutely impossible.