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Medieval torture or spaghettification
Falling into a stellar black hole means that the person will become very stretched like a piece of spaghetti. Professor Thaisa Storchi Bergmann compares the process to being pulled out on a medieval rackImage: Chandra Captures Image Of Black Hole At The Center Of Our Galaxy.
credit: NASA/CXC/MIT/F.K.Baganoff/Getty Images
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