I've been reading about 'spaghettification', a term coined by Stephen Hawking to describe what would happen to a hypothetical astronaut entering the event horizon of a black hole.
It's made me want to run tests: anyone know of a *small* black hole in the vicinity of Austin, TX?
It's made me want to run tests: anyone know of a *small* black hole in the vicinity of Austin, TX?
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This lets physicists test a lot of the effects of event horizons on observation and propagation of events. E.g.
https://wavelab.spaces.wooster.edu/research/black-hole/water/
Diagram here describes the idea as four points on a given mass.
Arms experience different tidal vectors from legs, with net effect of lengthening & compressing.
I think I'd like to test it with a Hostess Twinkie™.
Astrophysics is weird.
The event horizon radius r (aka the Schwarzschild radius, great name) is linear in mass. Very much unlike stars, whose mass is ~linear in *volume*
w/ inverse square, the gravitational force (→ gradient→🍝) @ r decreases w/ mass
If you're ok with the light-version, any tidal force would do-- so the moon being tidally locked, some small cubesats using it for attitude stabilisation, or the tides themselves
... and in Europe as well.
But maybe?