So, you've come to the end of the line and you want to end your life in
a dramatic climax that will have people talking for years. You decide
to jump into a Black Hole to clear your need to know everything about these
mysterious points in space. Setting your spaceship to full throttle
you head straight for the black hole.
You don't feel anything out of the ordinary at first. Just like landing
on a planet, gravity begins to get stronger. As you reach the horizon
though, you realize the pull begins to become really strong. Your
body, being composed of uncountable numbers of points begins to stretch
towards the black hole starting with the point closest to the singularity.
The pull of gravity increases so rapidly that your body would tear apart
before you even reached the singularity. But let's assume for educational
reasons that you don't get torn apart. You see yourself stretching
towards the singularity being led by that point that was closest to the
singularity. You try to escape by turning your boosters on to full
throttle but it is impossible. Not just because nothing can travel
faster than light, but because space and time inside the horizon is so
messed up that the distance you traveled becomes the past and the distance
you are about to travel becomes the future and, as mentioned earlier, trying
to escape is like trying to avoid the next minute in your life. You
find yourself pulled towards the singularity and crushed by its immense
gravity.
Now, if someone were to observe you from quite a distance from the black
hole, they'd never see you enter the horizon. Let me explain why.
Everything seems normal to them while you approach the black hole but as
you get closer to the horizon, time seems to slow down and your actions
get slower and slower. There are two theories to this, one involves
the concept of space time being distorted, the other, which I believe makes
more sense, involves the trapping of light. I will go by the one
which I think makes more sense. What is happening is that the light
begins to be pulled by the gravity of the black hole and takes longer to
get to the eyes of the viewer. But wait...didn't I mention before
that light doesn't slow down when affected by gravity but rather increases
wavelength? That would mean that the images projected towards the
viewer wouldn't come out slower but rather at different colors. On
reading about this, I too was confused and still am about how light reacts
to gravity. So in true honesty, I don't know. But one thing
is for sure, once you cross the horizon, light can no longer escape to
the viewer and as a result you would just seem to disappear or the light
escaping just before that point would take so long to reach the viewer
that it would seem as though you never fell inside the horizon.