Cognitive Labs

It would not be possible for you to experience the entire event, as intense gravitational forces would cause the end of life. If you could stay conscious you would witness the fall towards the singularity, however, and perception would skew towards a narrow band - as stellar objects and the Milky Way would be either red-shifted (getting further away) or blue-shifted (getting closer). Red shifted objects would be dim, blue shifted objects would be intensely bright.

Researchers at the University of Colorado developed this animation to show the hypothetical view if one were watching a live feed from an indestructible probe or if you were equipped like an astronaut with an impervious spacesuit.

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According to New Scientist...

If we ever make black holes on Earth, they might be much stranger objects than the star-swallowing monsters known to exist in space. According to a new theory, any black hole that pops out of the Large Hadron Collider under construction in Switzerland might be surrounded by a black ring – forming a microscopic "black Saturn".

A black hole and a black ring can co-exist, in theory, as long as they are set spinning, say Henriette Elvang of MIT in Cambridge, US, and Pau Figueras of the University of Barcelona in Spain. "If you just had a ring, it would collapse. It's essential that it rotates to keep balanced," Elvang told New Scientist.

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