That picture goes hard.
this post was submitted on 18 May 2024
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I mean, it's pretty common sense that at some point inertia would be overpowered by the gravitational pull of the black hole. Pretty sure that's what would happen if the moon got a little too close to us, too.
Of course there's a point where something cannot escape the gravity. What this article states is that instead of continuing to orbit while perpetually getting closer to the singularity, once the plunging region is hit the light/matter/whatever drops in basically a straight line at the speed of light to the center.