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Approaching a Black Hole

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Tidal stretching near a black hole and what it relates to. Every line is an evidence-backed relation, and the arrangement is fixed — this address draws this picture, today and next year.

constrained_by — Because the horizon radius grows linearly with mass while tidal acceleration falls as the cube of distance, the tide at the horizon falls as the inverse square of mass - so crossing a supermassive horizon is locally gentle.Schwarzschild radiusSchwarzschild radiusTidal stretching near a black holeTidal stretching near a b…
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  1. Tidal stretching near a black hole · constrained_by · Schwarzschild radius

    Because the horizon radius grows linearly with mass while tidal acceleration falls as the cube of distance, the tide at the horizon falls as the inverse square of mass - so crossing a supermassive horizon is locally gentle.