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Yes I know the process is called “spaghettification” but it’s not actually spaghetti. Okay it does look a bit like a mop of spaghetti on the end of a stick, but I assure you it’s a highly technical and rather expensive graphene-cored silicone microfilament. We call it a gravity-gradient visualization probe. When placed in proximity to an event horizon the filaments align with the gravity gradient, not unlike how iron filings reveal the shape of a magnetic field. The graphene core allows the magnetic resonance imager in the probe positioning armature — NOT a broomstick shut up — to determine the field strength, and with careful positioning, the exact boundary of the event horizon.

It might *look* like we’re just waving a bundle of spaghetti around in a lab full of synthetic black holes in the hope that they don’t eat our fingers, but I assure you it’s a very sophisticated piece of safety equipment.

How often do we lose a researcher? Oh, hardly ever since we developed the spag-uh gravity gradient probes. Not for weeks.

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