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Spaghettification is just the extreme effect of tidal forces. IIRC, objects made of normal materials falling into a stallar-mass BH will be ripped apart lengthw
by wiml 3y ago
Spaghettification is just the extreme effect of tidal forces. IIRC, objects made of normal materials falling into a stallar-mass BH will be ripped apart lengthwise (and compressed widthwise) before they cross the event horizon. The same object falling into a supermassive (galaxy-center) BH won't be ripped apart until some time after it passes the event horizon. Or an "object" which is a loose cloud of dust will be "ripped apart" much farther away (at the Roche limit). But the tidal force increases without limit as you approach the center of the BH, so no matter what the object is, it'll eventually be ripped apart.