Has anyone ever been sucked into a black hole before?

Question: Has anyone ever been sucked into a black hole before?
- Keywords:
  black hole,
  space
Asked by slamdunkeroo to Claire on 17 Jun 2013.
- Claire Lee answered on 17 Jun 2013:
  
  Fortunately not! (or unfortunately, depending on your point of view :-p )
  
  Luckily for us the black holes that can do damage are far, far away, like in the centre of the galaxy and further. As for mini black holes – well, they wouldn’t do much damage anyway – they could travel through the whole earth without swallowing an atom!
  
  Pity, though. That would be really cool to watch. Have you heard of spaghettification?

slamdunkeroo commented on 18 Jun 2013:

i did some research and isnt it something like the stretching of objects into long thin shapes (rather like spaghetti) in a gravity field?

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Question: Has anyone ever been sucked into a black hole before?