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Effect of a Black Hole’s Tidal Force on Infalling Matter

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Effect of a Black Hole’s Tidal Force on Infalling Matter
(a) A cube-shaped probe 1500 km from a 5-solar-mass black hole. (b, c, d) Near the Schwarzschild radius, the probe is pulled long
and thin by the difference in the gravitational forces felt by its different sides. This tidal effect is a greatly magnified version of
the Moon’s gravitational force on Earth. The probe changes color as its photons undergo extreme gravitational redshift and time
slows down on the probe, as seen from far away
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