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Spaghettification (Blackhole)

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What it does

Spaghettification, famously popularized by Stephen Hawking, is the process where extreme gravitational tidal forces near a black hole stretch an object vertically and compress it horizontally. This causes the object to elongate into a long, thin string-like shape—similar to a piece of spaghetti. Spaghettification is caused by extreme tidal forces. The formula to calculate this tidal acceleration (\(\Delta a\)) across an object's length is derived from Newtonian gravity as:\(\Delta a\approx \frac{2GML}{R^{3}}\)