Imagine a black hole like a super-strong vacuum cleaner in space. When something gets too close, it gets stretched and pulled apart, that's called spaghettification. It’s not just the pull of gravity you have to worry about, but how strong it gets closer you get!
Examples
- A person falling into a black hole would get stretched out like spaghetti
- A spaceship getting pulled apart by tidal forces near a black hole
- A cat being squished into a flat pancake as it approaches the event horizon
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See also
- What Causes the ‘Ring of Fire’ Eclipse and How Is It Different from a Total Eclipse?
- What Causes the Colors of Aurora Borealis?
- What If We Dug a Hole All the Way Through Earth?
- What is Tidal forces?
- What is Supermassive black holes?
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