#spagettification

[i-dont-know-how-this-site-works]

Goddammit.

https://youtu.be/OOQnk-hRVuc?si=EWAhlinqJmE8kp2C

They predicted the future like 8 years ago.

[sciencenewsforstudents]

Scientists Say: Spaghettification

Black holes cram a lot of mass into a small area. When another object gets close, the black hole’s gravity can stretch it into a noodle-like strand.

Spaghettification (noun, “spuh-GEH-tiff-ICK-cay-shun”)

This word describes how extreme gravity, like that of a black hole, stretches an object into a noodle-like strand.

Black holes are objects in space that contain a huge amount of mass crammed into a small area. As a result, they have intense gravity. Not even light can escape a black hole. An object nearing a black hole experiences much more gravity on the side nearest the black hole. This difference in gravity’s pull stretches the object into a thin string, like a piece of spaghetti. It’s what happens to stars near a black hole. And it’s what would happen if a spacecraft or person ventured too close as well. No need to worry, though. Even the closest black holes are thousands of light-years away.

Scientists Say: Black hole

When a star wanders too close to a black hole, it gets pulled into a long string of gas. Some of the star’s matter gets thrown back into space. The rest of the star’s leftovers orbit the black hole. This material, mostly gas, speeds around and crashes into itself. This orbiting gas forms what’s called an accretion disk. This glowing ring of gas spiraling around the black hole emits a lot of light. Scientists can observe that light to learn about the star-killing event and the black hole itself.

In a sentence

!n 2019, scientists got an early look at the spaghettification of a star.

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[werewolftransjenderism]

I'm always impressed with people who can be active in multiple fandoms at once because unfortunately every time I am fixated on more than one piece of media at a time I feel like I'm getting pulled apart spaghettification style

[just-jae]

I felt like the meanest person on the planet when drawing puppet Spamita, she look goofy as hell.

I dont thik i knew what i was doing with Big Shot era Spamita i just sent it.

Anyway, Femme Spamton!

She's blonde for an amazing reason. I gotta go to sleep but I'll explain this eventually.

Ray thinks she's a flag dancer.

[laneybutt]

My belly button is a black hole, and inside is an old Chuck E. Cheese, with ball pits and pee. And everybody gets lima beans.

-- Tiff

[picalla]

Near a black hole, things get weird. By Ph.D. Philip Plait

The spin of the black hole throws a monkey in the wrench of the event horizon (a boundary in space time beyond which events cannot effect the observer). Black holes distort the fabric of space itself, and if they spin that distortion itself gets distorted. Space can get wrapped around a black hole — kind of like the fabric of a sheet getting caught up in a rotating drill bit.

This creates a region of space outside the event horizon called the ergosphere. It’s an oblate spheroid, a flattened ball shape, and if you’re outside the event horizon but inside the ergosphere, you’ll find you can’t sit still. Literally. Space is being dragged past you, and carries you along with it. You can easily move in the direction of the rotation of the black hole, but if you try to hover, you can’t. In fact, inside the ergosphere space is moving faster than light. Matter cannot move that fast, but it turns out, according to Einstein, space itself can. So if you want to hover over a black hole, you’d have to move faster than light in the direction opposite the spin. You can’t do that, so you have to move with the spin, fly away, or fall in. Those are your choices.

I suggest flying away. Fast. Because…

Approaching a black hole can kill you in fun ways. And by fun, I mean gruesome and horrifying. 

Sure, if you get too close, you fall in. But even if you keep your distance you’re still in trouble.

Gravity depends on distance. The farther you are from an object, the weaker its gravity. So if you have a long object near a massive one, the long object will feel a stronger gravitational force on the near end versus a weaker force on the far end. This change in gravity over distance is called the tidal force.

The thing is, black holes can be small — a BH with a mass of about three times the Sun has an event horizon just a few kilometers across — and that means you can get close to them. And that in turn means that the tidal force you feel from one can get distressingly big.

Let’s say you fall feet first into a stellar-mass BH. It turns out that as you approach, the difference in gravity between your head and your feet can get huge. HUGE. The force can be so strong that your feet get yanked away from your head with hundreds of millions of times the force of Earth’s gravity. You’d be stretched into a long, thin strand and then shredded. Astronomers call this spaghettification.

So getting near a black hole is dangerous even if you don’t fall in. Evidently, there really is a tide in the affairs of men.