How do you study the inside of a black hole, something that, by definition, can't be seen?
If there’s one thing everyone knows about black holes, it’s that nothing escapes their grasp – not even light. Even if you could send a probe into one, it’d never be able to return and report back on what it found.
Anything that crosses the event horizon – the external boundary of a black hole – vanishes, lost forever behind a high-gravity veil.
Whatever might lie beyond the event horizon is effectively invisible to us. But that hasn’t stopped us from wanting to find out. We still long to know what’s inside a black hole. What might be lying there, behind that veil. Why? Because we’re curious.
It’s human nature to want answers. But also because whatever’s hidden inside could help us solve a problem – a problem at the very heart of our understanding of physics.
