Are scientists certain that a black hole would break everything up into atom particles?

Question

Are scientists certain that a black hole would break everything up into atom particles?

Answer 1

How can they know? No one has been up close and personal with one. So it will be a combination of science and intuition to lead one to answers. Observing one will yield those answers.

For me, anything going into a black hole will be returned to pure energy form. All matter is thus converted into pure energy, which can used in the process of creation, which then recreates atoms/particles/substances at the lowest levels...such as hydrogen, which then will coalesce into clouds and then reform stars which then recreate the other elements. It's creation...over and over and over. Infinite creation processes.

Answer 2

A black hole doesn't stop destroying objects at the atomic level.  You need to remember that a black hole forms when an extremely massive star collapses under its own immense gravity.  Stars with the mass of our own sun collapse into white dwarfs, which are composed largely of “electron-degenerate matter” - matter that is so dense that its constituent atomic particles are forced into high-energy quantum states.  Somewhat heavier stars collapse into neutron stars, in which the electrons, driven by their Fermi energy, smash into protons, and thus the electron-proton combinations become neutrons, so a neutron star is composed largely of what could be called neutron-degenerate matter, although many scientists prefer to refer to this stuff as neutrons compressed to a point where they form what is known as a “degenerate Fermi gas.” At this point, atoms typically cease to exist, as they are broken down to their component particles which are then fused together into neutrons.

Seeing that a black hole exerts a gravitational force that far outclasses the gravity of the most massive neutron star (while its singularity occupies no volume whatsoever), anything that falls into a black hole will have its atoms broken apart just for starters; then the protons and neutrons will be crushed into their component quarks, and finally quarks and electrons alike will be crushed into who-knows-what - smashed out of existence on the non-surface of the singularity at the center of a black hole.

Answer 3

Even smaller than atoms! Into elementary particles and even into strings!

Answer 4

Its just there guess!

Answer 5

Well, it's a pretty good educated guess;  but it *is* just a guess.  

Answer 6

Yep. The gravity just outside the event horizon is so strong that it even overpowers the stong and weak nuclear forces - the gravity inside a black hole even rips protons apart. This is because of a thing called "gravity gradient." The field is so intense that the gravity gets significantly stronger, even over the tiny distance that is the width of a proton. Since the gravity is so different at one end of the proton than the other, it can't hold up against this, and flies apart.

You know how the graph for the function 1/x looks, right? At x=0.5, y=2. At x=0.25, y = 4. At x = 0.000001, y = 1 million, and just half the distance closer to x=0, y = 2 million. Half again is 4 million.... This is somewhat like the strength of the gravity field as you cross those last few angstroms before reaching a black hole, and the reason it rips even atoms into shreds.

Answer 7

For the most part of Matter particles in a Vacuum warp, or rip across space is part of space that has a greater vacuum warp.Thus then charged matter is sucked in with other matter much like for example: If you had different matter particles such as a part of a apple and say a cup full of dirt, and stuck it in your kitchen garbage disposal then turned on some water to simulate gas matter in the cold vacuum of space.. " Now carefully raise a eyebrow and turn on the switch to the disposal..Results- a confined space of greater vacuum and charged particles will create a space much like a garbage disposal...

Answer 8

they can never be certain... but given the facts, and the extreme densities of black holes, it's a highly educated guess