REVEALING THE HIDDEN PHENOMENA BEYOND OUR SENSES #1: BLACK HOLES

Black holes are mysterious and consuming everything around them. They will rip apart anything that passes their event horizon, but could there be more? What would happen if you fell into one of these monstrosities? How could you possibly travel through the black hole itself? And if you emerged out the other side, where would you end up? This is what if, and here's what would happen if you traveled through a black hole.

Black holes aren't that much different than any other object in the universe that has mass, except that they are really, really dense. At their center is a singularity, basically an infinitely small point where all their matter is compressed. The more matter that's packed into a black hole's singularity, the stronger its gravitational pull. Considering that some black holes are the remnants of stars with more than 10 times the mass of our sun, they have a lot of gravity. And every black hole has an event horizon, which is the point of no return. Once you cross that, there's no way back out. And unless you travel as fast as the speed of light, you wouldn't be able to escape it. We don't know exactly what happens to something beyond the event horizon because once something is past it, there's no way of sending a message back. But odds are, gravity would rip you apart atom by atom, unless there was some other way out.

If you were lucky enough, you wouldn't just be venturing into the unknown depths of any normal black hole. You'd be crossing the event horizon of a charged black hole equipped with a one-way wormhole that connects the black hole with a white hole. Now, white holes are strange. Instead of consuming all matter in their path like black holes do, they only spit stuff back out into space. And nothing is able to enter a white hole, except you wouldn't just cross the event horizon and end up spat out on the other side. You'd better be ready for one of the most mind-blowing experiences the universe has to offer.

As you were preparing for the trip of a lifetime on the outskirts of the black hole, you'd see stars twisted around a perfect circle of darkness. It's too bad there wouldn't be much time to enjoy the view. This gravitational monster would start pulling you toward it faster and faster. The gravitational force of a black hole is unbelievably strong. It's so strong that it would turn you into spaghetti. If you were falling feet first, your legs would experience a significantly more intense gravitational pull than your head. Your body would get stretched into oblivion. Well, we don't want that to happen to you just yet, so let's say you'd fall into a wormhole just before the black hole rips you apart. And don't forget, you'd be traveling through not just any black hole, but a charged one. Not only would there be a wormhole lurking inside it, but this black hole would also have two event horizons.

But as you were crossing the space between the two points of no return, you'd likely not realize what's happened. You'd be in free fall, and as you'd fall deeper, you'd find the black circle in front of you appearing to grow bigger and bigger. If the black hole was as large as the one at the center of the Milky Way, this would take about 20 seconds. And with all the painful spaghettification you'd be experiencing, those 20 seconds would seem to last for an eternity. But once you approached the inner horizon, the black hole would appear to stop expanding, and then surprisingly, it would seem to shrink, almost like you started falling away from it. For a moment, you might