Re: A partial black hole?

Erik Max Francis <max@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
For any reasonably realistic black hole we can imagine today, though, it
wouldn't work, as you say. Note that when we're talking about tides
killing you near the singularity of a mundane stellar-massed
Schwarzschild black hole, we're really being kind: The tides near the
_event horizon_, before you've even passed the point of no return, would
be plenty fatal as it is.

What about event horizons that don't have anything to do with
singularities?
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