This reaction creates an energy drain inside the black hole until its eventually destroyed. More recently British and American astronomers have speculated that not all black holes are created from dying stars, that other supermassive black holes are formed by collapsing quasars and entire galaxies. In 1994 Hubble Telescope photos showed that there s a supermassive black hole in the middle of the M87 galaxy, its mass that of 2-3 billion suns. There is also evidence that a similar, but slightly smaller massive black hole, resides in the centre of our Milky Way. This is the region where light can t escape or be sucked back inside.
Scientists believe that here time virtually stands still or moves very, very slowly.
Gravity continues pulling him in and as he passes through the edge of the event horizon time begins to go backward. The intense gravity of the black hole will inevitably suck his space craft into its centre and rip it apart. This black hole was a small one, the destruction of our doomed space explorer taking less than one second from start to finish. A black hole would have to be immense, perhaps even limitless, for any human being to experience these effects. Of course it s very doubtful he d live to tell anyone about it.