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Black Holes and the Dark Side of the Moon

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The Schwarzchild Radius: The Last Stopping Point

If I were made of light, this would be the event horizon. But given that I'm not, and my bathroom scales assume it's a bit further out. The difference in gravitational pull and the distance between my head and feet is so large that I would be pulled apart. Think of the centre of a black hole as a tube, and the smaller the black hole, the smaller the tube I would be squeezed through. It sounds like a grim way to go, and in smaller black holes, that would be the case. When you have much more mass in the blackhole, the size of the black hole scales up with that mass. In theory, depending on the mass of the black

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