At first view, you might think this child has dressed up as a spiderweb for Halloween. But then you see the hapless astronauts with deformed arms, making you wonder. Spiderwebs are opportunistic. They lay in wait until something accidentally collides with the sticky strands. You rule out spiderweb, but what could this be? It’s a black hole costume, and the effect is genius.
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It suddenly clicks in your brain — black hole! The child is a black hole. The astronauts cannot resist the pull into the abyss of its darkness. Like a sci-fi movie, the image stretches and distorts as the objects disappear.
NASA willingly claims it knows little about black holes. It describes them as very dense, with gravity strong enough that nothing can escape. Even light is lost within a black hole. However, they also know a lot about black holes. One of the effects they describe has led them to coin the word spaghettification. This term describes how matter is “squeezed horizontally and stretched vertically, resembling a noodle.”
Whoever designed this black hole costume covered everything, including spaghettification. The astronaut’s stretched arms are a perfect example of this effect. While dragging things into a black hole, physical attributes stretch and skew until they succumb to the hole’s gravity and disappear into the abyss.
While the black hole costume is genius, it wouldn’t work without the astronauts. We assume those are the parents. This is one lucky kid to have such creative and engaged people in his life. And if they decide to reuse the costume next year, they can add a giant spider to the shoulder, which will be just as scary.
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