The universe contains many terrifying things - but a black hole has to be the scariest.
These infamous galactic greedy guts swallow everything in their path and are so powerful that even light can't escape their dreadful gravity.
Thankfully, humanity isn't currently anywhere near a black hole, but that hasn't stopped the world's greatest minds imagining what might happen if our planet encountered one of these great destroyers.
Now Kevin Pimbblet , senior physics lecturer at Hull University, has revealed what might happen if humanity came face to face with a black hole - and it's not pretty.
First of all, he said our planet could become the hole's dinner after being turned into "space spaghetti".
"if you stray too close to a black hole, then you will stretch out, just like spaghetti," Pimbblet wrote.
This effect is caused by the hole's immense gravitational pull, which would tug on the bottom of the Earth whilst squishing the centre.
The result would be an apocalyptic arrabiata, with the blood of six billion people making a macabre sauce on the mashed up remains of our planet.
If that sounds pretty grim, you may be comforted by the suggestion that humanity might not even survive this far.
Black holes produce vast amounts of radiation, which would quickly wipe out every human on the planet.
"Long before we would be spaghettified, the sheer power of this radiation would fry us," Pimbblet added.
There is one piece of good news though: after being cooked alive and turned into people pasta, the human species might live on as holograms.
"Don’t lose too much sleep, we’d have to be unfortunate to hit a black hole in the first place – and we might live on holographically after the crunch anyway," the scientist concluded.
