jenbanimSep 20, 2025
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Show threadjenbanimSep 20, 2025

This is how I spent my Friday evening alongside calculating how close you could get to the center of a black hole without dying or getting sucked in

What makes that interesting is smaller black holes produce gamma radiation so you have to balance shrinking the point of no return with radiation poisoning

By my estimate a black hole with a mass in kilograms between 1E14 and 1E15 (mid sized asteroid) are the sweet spot where you could get within 50ish meters if you don't mind a tiny bit of cancer

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@jenbanim are we talking Schwarzschild, Kerr, or something even more exotic? Looks like the Schwarzschild radius of that is smaller than the size of a hydrogen atom, so uh,
Sep 23, 2025 at 10:31amWeb
Show threadjenbanimSep 23, 2025

@endrift Schwarzschild. I imagined the black hole as somehow ominously floating at shoulder height on the surface of Earth without sucking up anything on the ground. In that case I figured the lethal distance would be when the gravitational acceleration became stronger than that of Earth so you'd get yoinked off your feet

So such a small black hole would have a miniscule radius but a strong gravitational field and radiation at a distance of tens of meters