How black holes can spaghetti up stars that come too close – AlKhaleej Today

Spaghettification sounds like a particularly nasty thing that happens to pretty much anything that isnt a lump of pasta batter. Now imagine it happened to a star. This is exactly what astronomers around the world observed over a six-month period when a black hole stretched and tore apart a star that was sucked into its intense gravity grip at a distance of 215 million light years from Earth, as per the Royal Astronomical Society released . It was the most accurate observation of such an event to…

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