Science Memes

10905 readers

1607 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.

Rules

Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
Keep it rooted (on topic).
No spam.
Infographics welcome, get schooled.

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.

Research Committee

[email protected]

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

692

perspective (mander.xyz)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

103 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was under the impression that the time it would take you to get spaghettified would render the fear of such an experience irrelevant, as you'd be long dead of natural causes before then.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

In the case you are unlucky enough to encounter the black hole "heads on" and fall into it radially, the proper time timescale to spaghettification is the size of the event horizon divided by the speed of light. The most supermassive black holes will have a horizon of around one light day, so that's what we're working with, a matter of days. If you come in on the most tangential orbit possible though, I guess you're buying some time but I've never heard that it's supposed to take many years of proper time (I doubt that claim a little bit, but haven't calculated myself).