19 August 2009

Spaghettification

"What the hell is spaghettification??" you say? Here's the explanation given by one of my heroes, Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, and the coolest astrophysicist on the planet.
That is spaghettification. Death by black hole. I don't recommend it.


The above video is a brief excerpt from NOVA's The Monster of the Milky Way. It can be seen in full here.

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