Spaghettification

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Spaghettification

The event horizon of a black hole is the point of no return. When an object gets close to this event horizon, extreme tidal forces from the black hole create a gravitational field that is so strong it begins to compress objects into long, thin shapes, like spaghetti. These are the same tidal forces we’ve discussed with the Moon, Earth and Sun. However, the difference in acceleration at the event horizon could be thousands of Earth gravities, so you would literally be pulled apart, or maybe you would just be infinitely stretched into a strand that never broke apart and could never be too thin? Who knows.

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