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by pdonis 4486 days ago
According to classical general relativity (i.e., without taking any quantum effects into account), if you fall inside the hole's event horizon, you will at some point get torn apart and destroyed by tidal gravity. (If the hole is small enough, that could happen even before you reach the horizon). Eventually even the atoms and subatomic particles that you were composed of will be destroyed in the singularity inside the hole.

When you include quantum effects, we don't have a good theory at this point to predict what happens; it depends on how the "black hole information paradox" is finally resolved. However, in terms of what will happen to you in practical terms, not much changes from the above: you will still most likely get torn apart by either tidal gravity or some kind of quantum "firewall". The details of what happens after that won't make much difference to you in practical terms.

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No romance at all. :-)