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How close can you go to a black hole without being pulled in?


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If M is the mass of the black hole then you can come back from a close encounter with a black hole if you stay at distances larger than (2GM/(c^2)). Here G is the universal constant of gravitation, c is the velocity of light. This assumes that you are a point particle, for extended bodies, tidal forces can lead to disruption much before this distance.

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