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What actually does happen to an object after it crosses the Event Horizon of a BH? Does it-
We don't have any adequate theory to describe what happens to matter inside the event horizon (and some theories even say that matter never actually crosses the event horizon). But let me address you specific questions:
1) It's possible that matter entering a black hole is converted into a new form of matter.
2) I have no idea what negative matter would be. Either way, no, I fairly positive that whatever this negative matter is, that's not what it becomes.
3) No, since the black hole has a mass, we can be reasonably sure that matter that falls into it keeps its mass. While mass is technically a form of energy, the mass that falls in doesn't get converted to pure energy.
4) Yes, something else probably does happen. As I mentioned, we have no real idea what that something is, we can only guess and approximate.
According the old classical general relativity, The event horizon can be approximated by flat spacetime so nothing happens when it crosses. But space and time coordinate interchanged for an outside observer, so its energy and momentum are interchanged for an outside observer. However, firewall is a new phenomena considering quantum effects, it says the event horizon is replaced by firewall
In general relativity it is believed that the Schwartz Child radius is approximately Ricci-flat spacetime, meaning that there is little tidal force or at least no amount that should be surprising. A smaller black holes have a greater tidal force because the Schwartz Child radius is closer to the singularity than in a bigger one.
In this theory falling in doesn't seem special to the person who is falling in until they get close enough to the singularity to start feeling extreme tidal forces, enough to induce stretching extreme enough to be called "spaghettification".
To an outside observer, the person falling in would never hit the Schwartz Child radius, they would slow down and flatten as they approached asymptotically to the edge of the black hole. They would eventually disappear from view as the red-shift stretched the wavelength of the light reflecting off of their body to enormous sizes.
What interests me the most is that inside the Schwartz Child the "proper time" (time experienced by the observer) mathematically switches with the distance of the observer from the black hole, so space and time switch; of course this is only a mathematical expression of what happens and it doesn't imply that one would feel anything odd.
There are also theories that state that the outside observer would witness the person falling in being thermalized, radiated out like infrared light off of a heat source. But it is usually also believed that the person falling in will not experience being thermalized, and will go on for a bit longer to be spaghettified. So it is theorized that there is a complete disconnect between the two observed events depending on the observer, but there is no way for them to communicate once one of them is passed the Schwartz Child radius so there is no real contradiction there.
