Galactic Spaghetti: The smallest stable orbit around galactic center with pasta(jwkennington.com)

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Galactic Spaghetti: The smallest stable orbit around galactic center with pasta

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Often in discussions about blackholes, the question arises of observer experience when falling into a blackhole. Due to the extreme tidal forces experienced along such a path, the observer would be stretched out - a process colloquially referred to as spaghettification. This week I would like to look at a happier use for spaghetti near blackholes. If an observer in a stable circular orbit around the supermassive blackhole at the center of our galaxy were to use spaghetti as a tether, how much spaghetti would be required? Restated, the Fermi-Problem question of interest this week is:

> How much spaghetti would be required to form the smallest stable circle around the supermassive blackhole at the center of the Milky Way?

Without giving away the numerical answer, the result is around 3 meals for everyone on Earth!