What happens to matter when it falls into a black hole?

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Illustration of matter in an accretion disk falling into a black hole. (Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman). The actual image of the disk will be distorted due to the intense gravitational field and will probably look like the following image. Outside the black hole, it depends on what form the matter takes. If … Continue reading What happens to matter when it falls into a black hole? →