Getting out of a black hole?

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If I tie a very strong rope to an object and then I throw it through the event horizon of a massive black hole (massive enough not to have extreme effects on my rope and object), why can't I pull it back? Where does it fail?

Bill · Accepted Answer

No rope is strong enough, and there is a time dilation effect so that nothing actually gets past the event horizon.

Zardoz · Answer

You could. Escape velocity applies to ballistics. The escape velocity of Earth's surface is 11.2 km/s but if you had a million mile long ladder you could climb out at half a mile per hour. But the information you'd gather a km inside the event horizon of a multibillion solar mass black hole would be exactly the same as the information you gather a km outside of it.

someg · Answer

It gets sucked in the hole. You could get pulled in after it if you are not careful, so don't do it.

Steven S · Answer

Even light can not escape the pull of a black hole. You would have little chance of recovering anything. No one is sure where the voyage will take you.

Anonymous · Answer

The rope would get spaghettified and so would you and you would get squished to death while being spaghettified.. There is NO pressure, but the gravity is so strong the would is be squished to death.. no rope would save your..Black holes DO NOT 'SUCK. They "pull". Sucking implies a difference in pressure. Black holes DO N OT "suck" They are N OT cosmic vacuum cleaners.

You should watch some of the episodes of "How the Universe works" "or Space's Deepest Secretes" on the Science channel or online.

You  should watch   some  of  the  episodes   of  "How  the  Universe  works"  "or  Space's  Deepest   Secretes"  on  the Science  channel  or  online.

Anonymous · Answer

To do that it would suck you in and crush you.

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