Say that we wanted to send a probe into a black hole, perhaps hoping to see if it's actually a wormhole that might transport the probe elsewhere.
Upon approaching a black hole, the probe would undergo spaghettification:
In astrophysics, spaghettification (sometimes referred to as the noodle effect) is the vertical stretching and horizontal compression of objects into long thin shapes (rather like spaghetti) in a very strong non-homogeneous gravitational field; it is caused by extreme tidal forces. In the most extreme cases, near black holes, the stretching is so powerful that no object can withstand it, no matter how strong its components.
–"Spaghettification", Wikipedia [references omitted]
This could be problematic because:
Inside or outside the event horizon
The point at which tidal forces destroy an object or kill a person will depend on the black hole's size. For a supermassive black hole, such as those found at a galaxy's center, this point lies within the event horizon, so an astronaut may cross the event horizon without noticing any squashing and pulling, although it remains only a matter of time, as once inside an event horizon, falling towards the center is inevitable. For small black holes whose Schwarzschild radius is much closer to the singularity, the tidal forces would kill even before the astronaut reaches the event horizon.
–"Spaghettification", Wikipedia [references omitted]
Since spaghettification is a relativistic effect, I am unclear if its behavior might be different if the probe were to approach at relativistic speeds.
Questions:
Would a black hole's spaghettification of an approaching probe vary based on the probe's speed?
If so, could this variation potentially be exploited to prevent a probe from being destroyed by a black hole's tidal forces?