Death by Spaghettification

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Spaghettification: it’s a funny word, but it’s also a very fitting one.

The word spaghettification describes the process of intense gravitational forces pulling an object apart, stretching it into long, thin strips — much like strands of spaghetti!

The process occurs whenever an object gets too close to a black hole, a special region in space that emits extremely strong gravity. In fact, the…