Unveiling the Cosmic Mystery: Why Smaller Black Holes Pose a Greater Threat than Their Massive Counterparts

 First, let's understand what triggers spaghettification. This phenomenon occurs due to tidal forces, which are the disparities in gravitational pull between two points.

There's a relatively uncomplicated formula that illustrates the tidal acceleration experienced by an object with length d, based on its proximity to another object with mass M: a = 2GMd/R'3. In this equation, a represents tidal acceleration, G is the gravitational constant, and R symbolizes the distance between the object's center and the mass M.

To establish a reference point, let's compute the tidal acceleration felt by a 6-foot-tall (1.8 meters) individual between their head and feet while standing on Earth. After inserting the values, the result is approximately 0.0000055 meter/second'2. Now, let's examine the impact of tidal forces on the same person descending into a 1 solar mass stellar-mass black hole with an event horizon radius of 1.8 miles (2.9 kilometers), compared to falling into a 100 million solar mass supermassive black hole with an event horizon radius of 183 million miles (295 million km).

In the first scenario, the tidal acceleration amounts to around 19.6 billion m/s2. However, in the case of the supermassive black hole, it's a mere 0.0000019 m/s2.

Thus, when someone falls feet-first into a stellar-mass black hole, tidal forces elongate their body into a slender, spaghetti-like strand. Conversely, upon entering a supermassive black hole, the individual experiences a tidal acceleration even weaker than that on Earth!

Written by Chatsonic