Black hole pressure and gravity.

[Peron]

I am trying to work out a difficult problem.

 

Atoms are smashed in colliders to release energy. Could this be happening in a black hole?

I think it is, I think that all of the matter in the black hole will get destroyed, well lets say the mass will be converted into energy.

But their is a problem, I do not know what the pressure is inside a black hole and how much energy would be required to destroy the particles inside.

The most massive black hole known (binary pair, in OJ 287) is 18 billion solar masses. I think that would be enough to convert the matter into energy.

 

Any help?

[ajb]

A couple of points;

 

1) If the matter falling into a black hole is being converted in to photons near the singularity, these photons cannot escape the event horizon.

 

2) Near the singularity quantum gravity effects presumably become important. You can probably do some calculations viz semiclassical gravity, but I have no idea how reliable such calculations would be.