What do you do if you see a blackhole?

Question: What do you do if you see a blackhole?
- Keywords:
  black hole,
  space
Asked by chef532gobo92 on 5 Mar 2026.
- Martin McCoustra answered on 5 Mar 2026:
  
  The only way you’d see a black hole is the light given out by the hot gas spiralling down into the black hole. You couldn’t see the black hole itself as even light can’t get out of a black hole.
  
  If I was close enough to see the light from matter spiralling down into the black hole… I’d wave goodbye to the universe as I’d probably end up spiralling down into the hole!
- Alistair Glasse answered on 5 Mar 2026:
  
  Hope you wake up before it spaghettifies you…!
- Daniel Innes answered on 5 Mar 2026:
  
  I did my entire essay at university on the maths of spaghettification! The short answer is try not to go towards it you probably won’t get back out…
- Cora Uhlemann answered on 5 Mar 2026:
  
  You take a picture and quickly send it out before you fall in. The picture might get into the news as has happened with the “black hole shadow” pictures recorded by the Event Horizon Telescope after many months of observing and data processing.
- Emily Walls answered on 6 Mar 2026:
  
  Try not to panic would be my first thought! Something has defo gone wrong if you are face to face with a black hole lol

Question: What do you do if you see a blackhole?