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If you fall in there's no way to get out, but you might stretch your survival time a bit.
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070514/full/070514-21.html
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070514/full/070514-21.html
A common idea in physics is that you shouldn't try to blast your way out of there. Black holes, it's said, are like the popular view of quicksand: the harder you struggle, the worse things become.
But Geraint Lewis and Juliana Kwan of the University of Sydney in Australia say this is a myth. Their analysis of the problem, soon to be published in the Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of Australia1, shows that in general your best bet is indeed to turn on the rocket's engine. You'll never escape, but you'll live a little longer.