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Your body stretches like pulled taffy falling into a black hole — that's spaghettification. Follow Starry Nights for a new space fact every day. #space #astronomy

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00:00like pulled taffy. Time itself slows down, and the whole universe speeds up behind you.
00:06This is the story of the fall, and it starts with a dying star. First, what is a black hole?
00:13It begins with a huge star, much bigger than our sun. When a star like that runs out of fuel,
00:18it cannot hold itself up anymore. It collapses under its own weight, crushing all of its mass
00:24into a tiny point. The gravity there becomes so strong that nothing can escape it. Not light,
00:30not time itself.

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