It would require a fundamental change to the laws of physics for any signal to travel faster than light. Such a change would also alter General Relativity. As the properties of a black hole are determined by these laws, such a major change could potentially alter those properties in significant and unexpected ways. Therefore, it would be difficult to predict what might happen under those circumstances.

I’m going to gently take issue with a couple of the points you make.

While it is true that no one has actually sent a probe into a black hole in a direct search for atoms (the closest black hole to Earth is about 1,600 light years distant), the nature of black holes themselves prevents such an experiment while at the same time the laws of physics pretty much make it impossible for an atom (involving a nucleus and one or more electrons occupying a discreet volume of space) to exist.

Remember that a black hole is by definition a singularity – that is, a point with no dimensions. None. It has no width, height or breadth. It’s a mathematical point in space.

Moreover, the tidal forces experienced by any matter just before it crosses over the edge of the event horizon all but guarantee that prior to falling beyond this ultimate point-of-no-return at a black hole no atom can hold onto its nuclear structure, let alone hang on to its electrons.

And regarding the point you make about “theories are not law,” I don’t believe that’s a scientifically accurate statement. In science, the word “theory” means much, much more than just someone’s educated guess.

Scientists use the term “theory” to represent an explanation that is testable, predictive, coherent, parsimonious and yet encompasses the largest available body of observable facts.

Examples of these would be Germ Theory and the Relativity Theory. The fact that these are “theories” doesn’t mean it might be OK to eat stuff in your fridge that’s been there so long it has begun growing fur, or to doubt that atomic bombs are real.

I hope this helps.

What’s inside it is all the mass that went into making it plus whatever the black hole has eaten since it formed.

BUT, there are no atoms inside a black hole. The components of atoms – protons, neutrons and electrons – have all been crushed out of existence and occupy an infinitely small and infinitely dense point known as a “singularity.”

There is not a single atom of matter that we would recognize within a black hole. There’s no such thing as carbon, oxygen, iron, silicon or even so much as an atom of hydrogen in a black hole’s singularity.

Why can’t we go there? Well, actually, you can – but you have to be willing to let the black hole kill you in a rather spectacular and gruesome manner on the way in.

As you got close to the black hole’s event horizon your spaceship and your body would be pulled into a long, spiraling parade of atoms traveling in single file as the black hole’s immense tidal forces overcame your body’s ability to hold itself together. The molecules of your body are torn apart by the tidal forces present near a black hole. Astronomers refer to the process as “Spaghettification.”

“Can we think in a mythology way?” Sure you can! Let your imagination run wild. Science fiction depends on people using their imagination.

Just remember though, there are no atoms in a black hole.

~ Jessica Moore 16