Re: A partial black hole?

Crown-Horned Snorkack wrote:

> If an extended material object drops into a Schwarzschild black hole,
> is it destroyed before crossing the event horizon, or before hitting
> singularity and possibly after crossing event horizon?

It depends on how much tidal strength you can withstand.  The tidal 
strengths only diverge at the singularity.  However, for the black holes 
that are formed from stellar evolution, the tidal strengths at or near 
the event horizons are high enough to tear reasonable materials apart -- 
which is exactly what I had said.

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