What happens to atoms in a black hole?

Even before you have a black hole, you can have a neutron star. Here, the gravitational force is enough to cause atoms to collapse, as protons absorb electrons in reverse beta decay, making the neutron star essentially a giant nucleus without protons. read more

Black holes have very high gravitational force that tends to crush everything. So as we know atoms in a molecule have inter-atomic spacing between them and further electrons also revolve at a certain distance to the nucleus and inside the nucleus there is also some empty space. read more

Let’s say the black hole formed from a neutron star, so all the atoms not at the surface of the neutron star are crushed into a “sea” of neutrons. But add more mass, and the neutrons themselves are not strong enough to support the weight, and the neutron star collapses into a black hole. read more

The atoms that are accreted to a black hole heat up to very high temperatures and ionize completely before falling into black hole. Therefore there is no point in asking "what happens to atoms". They ionize - that is all. read more