Question: what happens to matter when it is absorbed by a black hole?

James Harpur answered on 17 Mar 2017:

Great question.

People still don’t know so maybe you could figure it out in the future. The most likely scenario is that is torn apart into a gazillion pieces. Other theories, proposed by people such as Einstein, is that they are portals to other parts of space, known as Einstein-Rosen bridges. And string theorists believe that they not are portals, but to other universes.