{"id":207752,"date":"2025-03-04T03:24:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T09:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/study-reveals-what-would-happen-if-you-were-struck-by-a-tiny-black-hole"},"modified":"2025-03-04T03:24:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T09:24:42","slug":"study-reveals-what-would-happen-if-you-were-struck-by-a-tiny-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/study-reveals-what-would-happen-if-you-were-struck-by-a-tiny-black-hole","title":{"rendered":"Study Reveals What Would Happen if You Were Struck by a Tiny Black Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-reveals-what-would-happen-if-you-were-struck-by-a-tiny-black-hole.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1974, science fiction author Larry Niven wrote a murder mystery with an interesting premise: could you kill a man with a tiny <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">black hole<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>I won\u2019t spoil the story, though I\u2019m willing to bet most people would argue the answer is clearly yes. Intense gravity, tidal forces, and the event horizon would surely lead to a messy end.<\/p>\n<p>But it turns out the scientific answer is a bit more interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1974, science fiction author Larry Niven wrote a murder mystery with an interesting premise: could you kill a man with a tiny black hole? I won\u2019t spoil the story, though I\u2019m willing to bet most people would argue the answer is clearly yes. Intense gravity, tidal forces, and the event horizon would surely lead [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207752","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}