#spaghettification

[astronaut-offical]

Spaghettification

[zombie-virus]

Lotftober day 17: in space

Roger and jack getting spaghettified for their sins

@lotftober2025

[gregor-samsa-daily]

today's gregor samsa is: getting spaghettified

[live-laugh-amaze]

Grace bawi i uczy #1

Zawsze marzyłeś o tym, żeby stać się makaronem spaghetti? Nie? Tak czy siak możesz tę wizję zrealizować. O ile znajdziesz się w pobliżu czarnej dziury. W astrofizyce istnieje zjawisko potocznie zwane spaghettizacją bądź spaghettifikacją. Żeby zrozumieć na czym ono polega, wyobraźcie sobie, że zbliżacie się do czarnej dziury i macie pecha być ustawieni stopami do przodu. Grawitacja przy waszych stopach staje się dużo silniejsza niż przy głowie, co powoduje tak zwane siły pływowe, czyli różnice w przyciąganiu grawitacyjnym działającym na różne części ciała, wywołane przez czarną dziurę. Jesteście rozciągani wzdłuż, jakby ktoś złapał was za nogi i ciągnął coraz mocniej, a jednocześnie jesteście też ściskani po bokach, więc robi się z was coś długiego i cienkiego - taki kosmiczny makaron. Jeśli znajdujecie się przy małej czarnej dziurze, to prawdopodobnie staniecie się makaronem jeszcze przed przekroczeniem horyzontu zdarzeń, więc nawet nie zobaczycie co jest dalej, a szkoda. Przy supermasywnej czarnej dziurze macie na to większą szansę - zanim rozciągniecie się do rozmiaru długaśnej kluchy, może zostaniecie pierwszymi osobami, które zajrzały za tę barierę. Co prawda nie będziecie w stanie wrócić by komukolwiek o tym powiedzieć, ale hej... to i tak brzmi ekscytująco!

[curium-killedthecat]

this was originally meant to be a physics blog but i find myself posting more about biology related stuff - excuse my inner plant nerd but i like physics too, so:

*cough cough* SPAGHETTIFICATION! a phenomenon where you can become stretched like spaghetti if you enter a black hole.

it’s also known as the tidal effect, and is generally used to describe the vertical stretching or compression of an object into a noodle-like shape in an extremely strong and non homogenous gravitational field.

by non homogenous i just mean that the gravitational field is not the same everywhere, but consists of irregularities. (it is non-uniform)

anyways, a very common example of this is when we’re talking black holes- if i threw you into a black hole, or you happened to fall into one, the gravitational field on one end of your body would be stronger than the other.

this gravitational gradient would mean as you fell, getting closer and closer to the event horizon, your body would become extremely stretched until it would become very very compressed. like spaghetti. but don’t worry, by that time you’d already be dead.

this only happens because of the sheer strength of a black hole’s gravitational field. it’s not really because of its size - but its density. there are lots of objects close or even larger than some black holes, the mass of a black hole is so concentrated in a small area that it absolutely maximises its gravitational pull, which is why not even light can escape it.

this is just one of the relativistic effects of gravity differences, and there are so many cooler ones! for example, pancake detonation.

so stay away from black holes, or you could become stretched like spaghetti or flattened like a pancake.

[correctopinionhaver]

[vlovann]

🎶Don’t you…

Spaghettify me🎶

[janehaster]

The TVA is located inside a black hole or in its orbit

Ourobouros' comment on black holes and Loki being spaghettified if he wasn't rescued in time made me suspect that the TVA is located inside a black hole or in its vicinity.

There's a book on black holes and the end of the universe in the credits. That's what got me thinking about the possibility. Also, spaghettification is a phenomenon specific to the nature of black holes.

The effect of time and space dilation caused by a black hole would explain why no one ages at the TVA. It's related to Einstein's Theory of Relativity. One year in the orbit of a black hole corresponds to roughly 700 to a thousand years in normal space. This means that, if anything survives inside or near a black hole, that life form wouldn't age as fast as we do. 

Mobius would take 50,000 years to reach his 50s if he lived inside a black hole since he was born, for example

And if some technology created by Kang managed to isolate the effects of high gravity, then it would shield the agency and protect everyone from spaghettification, making it viable for the TVA to work from within or near the black hole, but making it impossible to escape its gravity and travel to other places.

Hence why the TemPads open portals to other points in time and space, and no one at the TVA goes anywhere using space crafts. Maybe not even Kang was able to create a vehicle capable of escaping the titanic gravity of a black hole. Not without risking spaghettification, at least. Hence the use of portals that instantly materialize you where you need to be.

With that said, Kang studied the relation between time, space and gravity and mastered it to the point where he created a device that could gather “raw time” and spin it into manufactured strands of time, bringing order - an artificial order, mind you - to what we presume is a chaotic universe, doomed to branch into a Multiverse and its own total annihilation.

One question remains, though. Loki and Sylvie traveled to the Citadel at the End of Time, but the TVA was nowhere to be seen. Shouldn’t it be located somewhere in the vicinity and be visible from Kang’s castle, since it’s also not located anywhere within the Sacred Timeline, rather existing outside of it? And where is the Temporal Loom located, exactly? In the very center of a black hole or in orbit around it, along with the TVA?

So many questions