What is spegattification?????
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Tidal forces acting on a spherical body in a non-homogeneous gravitational field. The effect originates from a source to the right (or to the left) of the diagram. Longer arrows indicate stronger forces.
In astrophysics, spaghettification (sometimes referred to as the noodle effect[1]) is the vertical stretching and horizontal compression of objects into long thin shapes (rather like spaghetti) in a very strong non-homogeneous gravitational field; it is caused by extreme tidal forces. In the most extreme cases, near black holes, the stretching is so powerful that no object can withstand it, no matter how strong its components. Within a small region the horizontal compression balances the vertical stretching so that small objects being spaghettified experience no net change in volume.
Stephen Hawking[2] describes the flight of a fictional astronaut who, passing within a black hole's event horizon, is "stretched like spaghetti" by the gravitational gradient(difference in strength) from head to toe. The reason this happens would be because the gravity exerted from the singularity would be much stronger at one end of the body than the other. If one were to fall into a black hole feet first, the gravity at his/her feet would be much stronger than at their head, causing the person to be vertically stretched. Along with that, the right side of the body will be pulled to the left, and the left side of the body will be pulled to the right, horizontally compressing.
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