eli5: what happens to things in blackholes? where do they go?

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eli5: what happens to things in blackholes? where do they go?

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A black hole is basically a star like our sun. It just has so much mass, that the gravity is strong enough to prevent even light from escaping. So anything that my be pulled into a black hole would burn up, or be crushed to the point it’s atoms are broken apart and it ceases to exist.