eli5 spaghettification

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i need to find a way to explain this to my friend and i cant think of a simple way. give me some ideas as to how.

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You ever been to a taffy shop and watched them make it? It’s kinda like that. Spaghettification is what happens say, in a black hole, when the gravity at one end of your body is so much more intense than on the other end that you’re stretched thin.

For a visual example, you could picture putting four objects arrayed in a giant square in orbit around a star, connected by string, with one corner pointed down. What will happen is the lowest object will get pulled down with more force than the ones above, as it’s closer to the center of mass, turning your square into a diamond.

Same principle as in a black hole, only because the gravity is so strong it happens in the distance of a human body.

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