{"id":158414,"date":"2023-02-18T12:24:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T18:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/why-are-small-black-holes-more-dangerous-than-big-ones"},"modified":"2023-02-18T12:24:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T18:24:28","slug":"why-are-small-black-holes-more-dangerous-than-big-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/why-are-small-black-holes-more-dangerous-than-big-ones","title":{"rendered":"Why are small black holes more dangerous than big ones?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-are-small-black-holes-more-dangerous-than-big-ones.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why would someone falling into a stellar-mass black hole be spaghettified, but someone crossing the event horizon of a supermassive black hole would not feel much discomfort?<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, there is a relatively simple equation that describes the tidal acceleration that a body of length d would feel, based on its distance from a given object with mass M: a = 2GMd\/R<sup>3<\/sup>, where a is the tidal acceleration, G is the gravitational constant, and R is the body\u2019s distance to the center of the object (with mass M).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why would someone falling into a stellar-mass black hole be spaghettified, but someone crossing the event horizon of a supermassive black hole would not feel much discomfort? As it turns out, there is a relatively simple equation that describes the tidal acceleration that a body of length d would feel, based on its distance from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}