spaghettify

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verb

To stretch an object into a long thin shape under the influence of a very strong gravitational field gradient, such as found near a black hole.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

verbspaghettify (third-person singular simple present spaghettifies, present participle spaghettifying, simple past and past participle spaghettified)

present singular third person spaghettifies · participle present spaghettifying · participle past spaghettified · past spaghettified

  1. ambitransitiveastrophysicsTo stretch an object into a long thin shape under the influence of a very strong gravitational field gradient, such as found near a black hole.

    big bangs are not blackholes. You mix shit together. A blackhole likely panificates or spaghettifies at its surface, before entering the horizon.

    2023 July 20, Nicky Hazanovich, “Re: Length contraction cannot cease”, in sci.math (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Jul 2026
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    If, for example, a black hole eats enough to triple its mass, then it will have grown three times as wide. For this reason, black holes in the universe can be almost any size, but not all of them will spaghettify you before you cross the event horizon.

    2007, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Death by Black Hole

    First, the intense gravitational forces around a black hole may 'spaghettify' space travellers before they even reach the event horizon, and second, the theory may be fully confirmed only if someone were prepared to test it.

    2013, David Wilkinson, Science, Religion, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Origin

Translations

French spaghettifier
  • spaghettifierTranslations
Portuguese espaguetificar
  • espaguetificarTranslations
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APA

spaghettify. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spaghettify

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Chicago

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