Spaghettification

Origin

spaghetti + -ification

Full definition of spaghettification

Noun

1. (astrophysics) The stretching of objects into long thin shapes in a very strong gravitational field such as a black hole.
• 2003, Stephen W Hawking et al, The Future of SpacetimeI am convinced, by arguments given by Wheeler in 1957, that the end point of spaghettification — the singularity itself — is governed by a union...
• 2005, Michael Lockwood, The Labyrinth of Time: Introducing the UniverseIt is not, therefore, the kind of singularity that spells inevitable spaghettification.