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Originally Posted by Icenova
The episode of the Universe (History Channel) on black holes describes that at some point matter that gets too close is stretched, rotated, and heated into a plasma around the black hole.
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Sounds about right. Also, if the hole is spinning, it seems that not only the matter but also the adjacent spacetime itself starts to get dragged around in the process.
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Originally Posted by Icenova
This process is speculated to also occur inside the event horizon around the singularity.
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I haven't heard too much speculation about what's going on in there. Of course, different size holes can have greatly different effects as one crosses the event horizon.
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Originally Posted by Icenova
Could tidal forces and the warped space around the singularity form a system where radiation dissapates outward, not escaping from inside the event horizon, but escaping away from the singularity as matter is stretched inward?
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My unprofessional guess would be no. A beam of light at the event horizon in a (hypothetical) circular orbit around the center of the hole could not escape, so it could not get any further away from the hole's center, whatever that is.
All that infalling mass/energy has to do something. It's all still there and gravitationally affects its surroundings, just like before. We just don't have the physics that explains what ultimately stops the gravitational compression and where and at what density. I venture to think that most scientists agree that "infinite density" makes no sense.