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Comment by Lia Medeiros

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Astrophysicist and black hole researcher affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study and the Black Hole Initiative.
Don’t let fear of getting sucked into a black hole keep you up at night... you’d have to get really close for that to happen. From far away, a black hole behaves like any other object with a lot of gravity, like a star.
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Lia Medeiros quoted in "Fuzzballs Might Be the Answer to Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox," Institute for Advanced Study, February 23, 2022.
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AI Verified The quote says you must get very close for a black hole to swallow you and that far away it behaves like a star, directly relevant to Earth-safety concerns. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2h ago
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AI Verified The quote says you have to get really close for a black hole to swallow you and that far away it behaves like a star, so the recorded answer 'for' is correct. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2h ago

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AI Verified IAS page quotes Lia Medeiros saying you must get really close for a black hole to suck you in and that far away it behaves like a star; this matches the stored quote. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2h ago
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