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Why bigger is safer

The bigger the black hole, the safer the crossing. At a supermassive one you pass the horizon without feeling anything.

Small black holes tear you apart

At the horizon of a 10-solar-mass black hole, tidal acceleration reaches 1.8×10⁸ m/s². The difference in gravity between your head and feet stretches you. This is spaghettification.

Large ones do nothing

At M87* (6.5 billion solar masses) the tidal force at the horizon is 4.1×10⁻¹⁰ m/s². You could not detect the moment you crossed.

The reason

Radius scales with mass, but tidal force falls with the cube of radius. Bigger therefore means gentler.

After you cross

At M87* you would have about 28 hours before the singularity. Alive the whole time — with no way out.

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