What You Would See If You Fell Into a Black Hole

You get a one-way trip to a black hole: a ship, a spacesuit and all the time you need. Your crew watches from a safe distance, and you fall all the way in. This video follows you from Earth all the way down to the centre: why a black hole looks black, why the nearest one we know of would stretch you like spaghetti, how a 27,000 light-year trip can take you only 20 years, the spot where you could see the back of your own head, why your crew never sees you cross the edge, why no engine can get you back out, and what happens to the black hole, and to you, long after the last stars have gone out. 0:00 Your one-way ticket 0:44 What a black hole actually is 1:16 How they're made 1:37 The nearest one 1:52 Spaghettification 2:08 The giant at the centre of our galaxy 2:34 The trip: 20 years for you, 27,000 on Earth 3:06 The approach 3:22 Watching the stars bend 3:40 The star that won a Nobel Prize 3:59 Why your phone needs Einstein 4:32 The back of your own head 4:53 The edge 5:36 Why no engine can save you 6:02 Inside 6:30 What you'd see on the way down 6:59 The centre 7:24 After you 7:58 The information paradox 8:41 The last black holes