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Black Hole Bonanza: StarTalk Live! With Janna Levin and Jenny Greene

StarTalk Radio

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The Tidal Force of the Black Hole

Tidal forces are the stretching force of gravity's difference from one side of you to the other. So when the black hole gets medieval on your eggs, that is totally one of those racks where they try to rip you apart somehow. And it reaches a point where the tidal forces exceed the molecular binding forces of your flesh and you split. You will probably still be alive at this point, because you don't...

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