Joshua Topolsky
June 11, 2009
On falling into a black hole
“I think of a black hole as rather like a waterfall, except it’s not a fall of water but rather a fall of space,” he said. “Even light itself, which is struggling to get out, pointed away from the black hole, will find itself dragged inward, like doing a Michael Jackson moonwalk.”
“The gravity at your feet is stronger than the gravity at your head, as long as you fall in feet first. … You feel this difference in gravity between your feet and your head as a tidal force, which pulls you apart vertically in a process called ‘spaghettification.’ “
Via CNN
