Well, I was going to say that things would be torn apart due to tidal forces; but after some videos like
this and researching it before I posted an uneducated comment; apparently for supermassive blackholes such as the one in the centre of our galaxy, spaghettification will occur while you are
inside the event horizon (approx 0.1 seconds away from the centre) -- contrary to popular [and my previous] belief. I thought that you'd be torn apart as soon as you got anywhere near it, but the fact you can pass through it and still be intact is insane!
Apparently tidal forces at the event horizon are inversely proportional to the square of the mass:
FT∝M21So for smaller black holes, you'd actually experience stronger tidal effects than at a supermassive black hole! (at the event horizon)
However, there's the complication of general relativity [I'm trusting my knowledge on this one], from an
outside observer's perspective, we would see the Earth get squished into an infinitesimally thick layer on/slightly above the event horizon; which I'll read more about, since I don't completely understand why (something to do with the presence of such extreme mass warps spacetime so much that we see the passage of time on the in-falling Earth to be
much slower than of our own, but I'm not certain). But in any case, from the point of view of somebody outside the blackhole, it would take an infinite amount of time to watch something 'pass through' the event horizon and because of this; it just isn't possible.
So I guess the answer is technically neither, it isn't 'sucked' in, it's more sucked 'on' xD But if you were on the Earth at the time; you'd certainly experience passage through the event horizon; and as you neared the centre, you'd be horrifically torn apart
I thank you for teaching
me something new!