All parts of your body are moving toward the same spot-the black holes center. so while youre getting ripped apart head to toe, you will allso extrude through the fabric of space and time, like toothpaste squeezed through a tube.
to all the words in the english language that describe ways to die (e, g., homicide, suicide, electrocution, suffocation, starvation) we add the term spaghettification.
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introducing complicated terminology.
providing relevant statistics and figures.
relating the information to something familiar.
describing a personal experience.