![]() ![]() IMAGE: This illustration depicts a star (in the foreground) experiencing spaghettification as it’s sucked in by a supermassive black hole (in the background) during a ‘tidal disruption event’. Most of the time, the dusty and cluttered area around black holes obscures the flares and flashes of light that can be associated with objects being torn about. The human body, stretched under the pull of gravity into a string of atoms, would create a spiral that if laid straight would stretch 70 some odd light-years across the universe.īut mostly, spaghettification is just theoretical. If you’re into cosmic death, spaghettification is a fascinating way to go. This word, spaghettification, describes how the differences in the pull of gravity between the near and far side of an object can cause that object to be torn apart – tidally disrupted if you want the science term – and then those disrupted pieces can get strung out as they fall toward the disrupting body, breaking up further as each piece is stretched and pulled apart until all that is left is the long tail of debris spiraling in toward its doom. As its syllables are bounced back and forth along the speech palette, the word describes the end of stars, planets, asteroids, and maybe even people. Another such pleasing word is spaghettification. I, for one, am fond of the word arugula even if I’m not entirely fond of eating arugula. They are a combination of sounds and mouth movements that just feel good. There are certain words that are simply pleasing. ![]()
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