Cant spaghettification be explained much more simply It looks to me like this article is overcomplicated and spaghettification  can be explained in under  lines plus possibly  very simple diagram using Newtonian gravity   Gravitational pull is inversely proportional to the square of distance  So the pull on the near side of an object is greater than the pull on the far side  That means the near side wants to accelerate faster than the far side towards the source of the gravity field  This difference in acceleration creates tension between the  sides of the object The tension is proportional to  factors the length of the object in the direction pointing towards the gravity source the strength of the gravitational force For normal gravity fields like Earths the effect is negligible if the object is smaller than a large asteroid But in an extremely strong gravity fields such as a black holes the tension can become enough to stretch the object and eventually pull it apart Or am I missing something  If Im right and the article can be simplified we can use the extra space for additional aspects eg any new features added by general relativity spahettification eventually destroys atoms and even subatomic particles falling into black holes because as the distance from the black hole decreases the gravitational pull increases very fast inverse square law and the difference in distance between the leading and trailing edges of the victim becomes a large fraction of the distance to the black hole what happens when  black holes meet