In the Event Horizon

Many theoretical scientists have begged the question for decades: what would it be like to travel to the center of a Black Hole unimpeded? It's a well known fact that the immense gravity well would tear you apart before you could even pass through the event horizon, but what if it was possible? This illustration now offers an answer to that question. I give you the JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE BLACK HOLE!
From top to bottom: at about ten billion miles from the center (varying depending on the mass of the black hole) gravity starts to take effect. Slowly at first, you start to accelerate as you draw closer to the small, black dot in the sky. The farther you go, the faster you go: It's not long before you hit fifty per cent light speed. As you go faster, your perception of time-space becomes distorted. Your watch still reads 6:30, but you watch millions of years pass by every minute. You watch stars grow and die, and no one can contact you anymore when you pass the 10 million mile mark at 98% light speed. Down below you, you see the swirling mass of matter being drawn unstoppably around the black sphere- the ergosphere or subsequent region. Now one million miles from the center, you are touching the event horizon. This is the point of no return. Even light can escape. There's no way out now. Only down. Down. down...
WElcome to the end of the known universe. This is where everything freaky happens. You're moving at 115% light speed, faster than anything in the known universe. Looking up, you see its entire history at once, from the big bang to the death of the last star. To all sides, you see matter pour in and vanish at speeds incomprehensible to the human eye. A rain of protons hammers down towards a mysterious darkness. It's not quite black, more as if you've gone blind only to that part. Then, in this vast nothing, you see a swirling ball of light, smaller than a golf ball, yet brighter than the sun,
This is it; the singularity. The heart of the black hole.
Congradulations, you made it to the center. Now how do you get out?
Rendered in Photoshop 7.0.

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