{"id":241201,"date":"2026-07-19T20:03:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T01:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/how-close-can-a-spacecraft-safely-orbit-a-black-hole-compare-deadly-stellar-mass-black-holes-with-gentler-supermassive-giants"},"modified":"2026-07-19T20:03:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T01:03:57","slug":"how-close-can-a-spacecraft-safely-orbit-a-black-hole-compare-deadly-stellar-mass-black-holes-with-gentler-supermassive-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/how-close-can-a-spacecraft-safely-orbit-a-black-hole-compare-deadly-stellar-mass-black-holes-with-gentler-supermassive-giants","title":{"rendered":"How close can a spacecraft safely orbit a black hole? Compare deadly stellar-mass black holes with gentler supermassive giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/isaac-arthur-isaac_a_arthur-instagram-reel.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And see how extreme orbits could give future ships enormous speed boosts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And see how extreme orbits could give future ships enormous speed boosts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241201","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=241201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}