If you were falling feet first into a Black Hole, then as you approached the event horizon your feet would be very time dilated and slow down relative to your head. Your head would catch up with your feet and you would be concertinaed, go “squish”, and arrive at the event horizon as a thin pancake.
The phenomena that occur as matter approaches a black hole are bizarre in the extreme, but why would the squish/splat happen precisely at the event horizon?
I have seen astrophysicists discuss the distortion of spacetime being so extreme around a black hole that the difference in tidal forces between your feet and head would stretch you out or "spagettify" you.
I know saying something doesn't make sense around a black hole, but nothing makes sense around a black hole, so it doesn't make sense to me that matter stops at the event horizon. It seems to me that matter would continue falling inward until it gets to the center, but I would also expect that all the matter would be converted to energy at some point in the process, so maybe everything inside the event horizon is a seething caldron of pure energy.
Outside of black holes, out here in the Universe we can observe we think the densest objects are neutron stars. When enough mass is added to a neutron star it becomes a black hole, but does that mean that there is still a neutron star inside the event horizon or has the neutron star transitioned into an even denser more compact form?
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