How painful is spaghettification?

As stated on 'Spaghettification wouldn't hurt. The black hole will pull you so fast that electrons transmitting the pain signals will not be fast or strong enough to escape the gravitational pull in order to make it to the brain'."

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Does spaghettification hurt?

Either way, spaghettification leads to a painful conclusion. When the tidal forces exceed the elastic limits of your body, you'll snap apart at the weakest point, probably just above the hips. You'll see your lower half floating next to you, and you'll see it begin to stretch anew as tidal forces latch onto it.

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What happens to your body during spaghettification?

If you're into cosmic death, spaghettification is a fascinating way to go. 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. But mostly, spaghettification is just theoretical.

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Could a human survive spaghettification?

"The person would experience spaghettification, and most likely not survive being stretched into a long, thin noodlelike shape," according to Leo Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of Physics from Grinnell College, and Shanshan Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of Physics at Grinnell College, in an article published by The ...

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How fast would spaghettification happen?

Alternatively, in the case of a smaller black hole with an event horizon much closer to its center, a human would be killed before crossing the event horizon. In both cases, spaghettification would be very quick, occurring in less than a second.

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Can you avoid spaghettification?

Spaghettification is not inevitable. Black holes of different masses will have different gradients, so with supermassive black holes it is perfectly possible to pass the event horizon with no ill-effect. Again, this is not to say that the gravitational pull isn't strong, just that the gradient isn't too extreme.

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Has spaghettification ever happened?

Bottom line: Spaghettification – aka the noodle effect – is the vertical stretching (and ultimate destruction) of any object that comes near a black hole's event horizon. Astronomers have now witnessed a rare blast of light from a star being spaghettified.

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How long is 1 minute in a black hole?

Black hole news: Standing on edge of black hole would cause 700 years to pass in 1 minute.

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Has anything survived a black hole?

The event horizon of a black hole is the point of no return. Anything that passes this point will be swallowed by the black hole and forever vanish from our known universe. The distance from a black hole's center of mass to where gravity's pull is too strong to overcome is called the event horizon.

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Can a black hole destroy a galaxy?

There is no way a black hole would eat an entire galaxy. The gravitational reach of supermassive black holes contained in the middle of galaxies is large, but not nearly large enough for eating the whole galaxy.

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Is black hole spaghettification real?

Telescopes have captured the rare light flash from a dying star as it was ripped apart by a supermassive black hole. This rarely seen "tidal disruption event" — which creates spaghettification in stars as they stretch and stretch – is the closest such known event to happen, at only 215 million light-years from Earth.

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What is the radius of spaghettification?

A person would literally be pulled apart! Some physicists have termed this process spaghettification! d = 2 meters. radius of 2.9 kilometers.

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Does time stop in a black hole?

Near a black hole, the slowing of time is extreme. From the viewpoint of an observer outside the black hole, time stops. For example, an object falling into the hole would appear frozen in time at the edge of the hole. Inside a black hole is where the real mystery lies.

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How fast does a black hole pull you in?

The Stuff Falling into This Black Hole Is Moving at Almost 56,000 Miles a Second! A glob of material the size of Earth is getting sucked into a black hole at nearly one-third the speed of light, a new study reports.

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Is a black hole tight?

Black holes are made of matter packed so tightly that gravity overwhelms all other forces.

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Do black holes eventually burn out?

With every bit of energy that escapes, the black hole loses mass and thereby shrinks, eventually popping out of existence altogether. The appearance of Hawking radiation has created what's known as the black hole information paradox.

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Has a human gone into a black hole?

No human has ever been inside of a black hole. Humans are not yet capable of interstellar travel. Even if a human was able to travel to a black hole, he or she would not be able to survive entering it. Black holes condense all the matter that falls into it into one point called a quantum singularity.

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How many years until the last black hole dies?

A black hole with a mass of around 1 M will vanish in around 2×1064 years. As the lifetime of a black hole is proportional to the cube of its mass, more massive black holes take longer to decay. A supermassive black hole with a mass of 1011 (100 billion) M will evaporate in around 2×1093 years.

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Do wormholes exist?

While researchers have never found a wormhole in our universe, scientists often see wormholes described in the solutions to important physics equations. Most prominently, the solutions to the equations behind Einstein's theory of space-time and general relativity include wormholes.

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How big would Earth be if it was a black hole?

After just a few minutes more — 21 to 22 minutes total — the entire mass of the Earth would have collapsed into a black hole just 1.75 centimeters (0.69”) in diameter: the inevitable result of an Earth's mass worth of material collapsing into a black hole.

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How heavy is a black hole the size of a penny?

A black hole with a Schwarzschild radius of about a centimeter, which would make it about the size of a coin, would have about the same mass as the Earth. The reason the Earth will be destroyed but not simply swallowed up is because the Earth will be resisting the black hole in at least two ways.

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What if a coin sized black hole appeared on Earth?

If a penny-sized black hole did form on Earth, the planet would indeed be destroyed killing everyone on it, but the process would likely be different than in the video above. A penny-sized black hole would have roughly the same mass as the Earth for reasons explained later.

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What would happen if a black hole ate a star?

They're called 'tidal disruption events'

Black holes are gatherers, not hunters. They lie in wait until a hapless star wanders by. When the star gets close enough, the black hole's gravitational grasp violently rips it apart and sloppily devours its gases while belching out intense radiation.

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Who created dark matter?

The term dark matter was coined in 1933 by Fritz Zwicky of the California Institute of Technology to describe the unseen matter that must dominate one feature of the universe—the Coma Galaxy Cluster.

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Who invented spaghettification?

This effect essentially stretches out the object more and more as the object gets closer to the black hole, creating a long, thin shape. This process is known as spaghettification, which was first described by theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking in his book "A Brief History of Time."

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