Spagghettification of a Star - or why traveling via black holes may be tricky
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I always used to wonder at these scifi movies where you travel through a wormhole, which is supposed to be a connection, a tunnel between two black holes. And just the idea of going too close to a black black hole kind of never made sense to me. And this article that I've linked below shows what happens in the extreme gravity situation when a star comes too close to a supermassive black hole. In this particular instance, they have observed relatively close by only 200 some million light years away
Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 3:03
Irish. Very interesting thoughts. Yes. I've also wondered about this. And I always kind of like flipflop between whether it is just the perception of what a black hole does to you, as they say, like, like, as you see as you go towards the event horizon, you get stretched and you get pulled in
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 3:28
I'm also linking an article here that explains a little bit about black holes for those who are interested, I guess it's the way you imagine it. If you imagine spacetime as a flat plane, then yes, you enter this curved spot on it, and then there is no way to jump out of it here at the bottom of the curve in that plane
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Xiaomi, but as you have so Eloquently said in your own description, in your Soul cast, there's only one set of facts in the universe, and those are the laws of physics. So I think that might be a bit of a stumble, but we will see we will see if somebody actually can. Well, maybe we'll not. I don't know. Somebody figured it out. But as far as the laws of physics are concerned right now, I stand by kind of my observation
Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 0:18
Irish I doubt I'll ever want to subject my biological self through a black hole at any point, if at all, I would probably encode myself onto some light rays or something and then probably approach black hole and see what it's all about
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