To all the cosmologists and black hole experts out there: What would happen to a large object (very fast moving asteroid, planetoid, etc.) that was on a trajectory to tangentially intersect an event horizon, in a manner such that a portion of the object remained outside the event horizon and the rest entered inside the event horizon as the object passed by. Assume the black hole is very large and the tidal forces near the event horizon are not particularly large. Nothing should be able to escape from within the horizon, even in this contrived thought experiment. And yet I can't think of any physics that would require that the whole object enters the black hole, but the tidal forces would be unable to pull the object apart. What happens to the object? Anybody have any potential answers?
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