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Spaghettification 🍝
In astrophysics, spaghettification (sometimes referred to as the noodle effect) is the vertical stretching and horizontal compression of objects into long thin shapes (rather like spaghetti) in a very strong, non-homogeneous gravitational field. It is caused by extreme tidal forces. In the most extreme cases, near a black hole, the stretching and compression are so powerful that no object can resist it. Within a small region, the horizontal compression balances the vertical stretching so that a small object being spaghettified experiences no net change in volume. — Wikipedia
🔧 spaghettification.js refactored and ported to JavaScript by Zeger Hendrikse
👉 Based on spaghettification.py by Paul Francis
Visualization by the Science Museum of Virginia
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