Questions that keep me up at night

[ItachiAnbu]

Would water boil at 100 degrees Celsius (or would it at all) if you were just in front of the event horizon of a black hole? What if the water was halfway through the black hole? And what about beyond it?

Lets say water is boiling, and it passes through the event horizon and into the black hole. Would it still boil? Would it ever stop completely?

I didn't feel like researching this, and cannot curently figure it out in my head. Some unknown factors to consider might be the location of the black hole, the size of the black hole relative to the water, or how the water is being boiled.

Debate.

[Err]

You make it sound like a black hole is actually a hole in space, I hope I just misunderstood you. Any naturaly occuring black hole would be powerful enough to even bend light so yeah, as you approach it you start to get sucked in by gravity.

I also wondered what happened to water in space so I looked it up. Check it out:
http://scienceblogs.com/startswithab...at_happens.php

[DeemonFox]

Water,in liquid form, is very rare in space. It would most likely be in solid form. Ice, like all matter trapped in the event horizon, would undergo spaghettification. That is, the difference in gravitational pull on the end closest to the black hole and the other end becomes so great the we get an elongation like a spaghetti noodle. While this is happening, there is energy of the matter is also increasing greatly as it approaches the black hole. So, the ice would eventually vaporize and spaghettification would continue on the molecular level until all the matter is converted to energy absorbed by the singularity.....theoretically.

Hope you can sleep now.

[ItachiAnbu]

Originally Posted by Err

You make it sound like a black hole is actually a hole in space, I hope I just misunderstood you. Any naturaly occuring black hole would be powerful enough to even bend light so yeah, as you approach it you start to get sucked in by gravity.

I also wondered what happened to water in space so I looked it up. Check it out:
http://scienceblogs.com/startswithab...at_happens.php

I hold with the common definition of a black hole as being an area in space from which nothing can escape. When I looked up a more in-depth definition, it said that it is caused by a "deformation of spacetime caused by a very compact mass. This would mean that it is not a lack of space. I might not have communicated that clearly. My apologies.

Interesting. I noted the inverse relationship between pressure and boiling point temperature.

Originally Posted by DeemonFox

Water,in liquid form, is very rare in space. It would most likely be in solid form. Ice, like all matter trapped in the event horizon, would undergo spaghettification. That is, the difference in gravitational pull on the end closest to the black hole and the other end becomes so great the we get an elongation like a spaghetti noodle. While this is happening, there is energy of the matter is also increasing greatly as it approaches the black hole. So, the ice would eventually vaporize and spaghettification would continue on the molecular level until all the matter is converted to energy absorbed by the singularity.....theoretically.

Hope you can sleep now.

Wow. Difficult to picture, but very intellectually stimulating.