{"id":255,"date":"2016-03-15T18:03:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T23:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oscarbenavides3.wordpress.com\/?p=176"},"modified":"2016-03-15T18:03:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T23:03:10","slug":"spaghettification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/sced3890pedagogy\/2016\/03\/spaghettification\/","title":{"rendered":"Spaghettification"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure data-shortcode=\"caption\" id=\"attachment_183\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-183\" src=\"https:\/\/oscarbenavides3.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/03\/spaghetti.jpeg?w=748\" alt=\"spaghetti\"   \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2013\/12\/24\/blackhole1a_wide-7ee72dbf78e99e35e09cf719b0596343796579fe-s900-c85.jpeg\">Spaghettification<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The event horizon of a black hole is the point of no return. When an object gets close to this event horizon, extreme <strong>tidal forces<\/strong> from the black hole\u00a0create a gravitational field that is so strong it begins to compress objects into long, thin shapes, like spaghetti. These are the same tidal forces we&#8217;ve discussed with the Moon, Earth and Sun. However, the difference in acceleration at the event horizon could be <strong>thousands of Earth gravities<\/strong>, so you would literally be pulled apart, or maybe you would just be infinitely stretched into a\u00a0strand that never broke apart and could never be too thin? Who knows.<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/oscarbenavides3.wordpress.com\/176\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/oscarbenavides3.wordpress.com\/176\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=oscarbenavides3.wordpress.com&#038;blog=105350567&#038;%23038;post=176&#038;%23038;subd=oscarbenavides3&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The event horizon of a black hole is the point of no return. When an object gets close to this event horizon, extreme tidal forces from the black hole\u00a0create a gravitational field that is so strong it begins to compress objects into long, thin shapes, like spaghetti. These are the same tidal forces we&#8217;ve discussed&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/oscarbenavides3.wordpress.com\/2016\/03\/15\/spaghettification\/\">More <span>Spaghettification<\/span><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=oscarbenavides3.wordpress.com&amp;blog=105350567&amp;post=176&amp;subd=oscarbenavides3&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/sced3890pedagogy\/2016\/03\/spaghettification\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5150,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/sced3890pedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/sced3890pedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/sced3890pedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/sced3890pedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/sced3890pedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/sced3890pedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":558,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/sced3890pedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/sced3890pedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/sced3890pedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/sced3890pedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}