- When a star strays too close to a black hole, intense tides break it apart into a stream of gas. The tail of the stream escapes the system, while the rest of it swings back around, surrounding the black hole with a disk of debris. This is called a tidal disruption event. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/tidal-disruption.html 4 comments science
Linking pages
- Astronomers detect "Scary Barbie" supermassive black hole ripping apart huge star in "terrifying" spaghettification event - CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scary-barbie-supermassive-black-hole-star-spaghettification-space-artificial-intelligence/ 16 comments
- Black Hole Feasts On White Dwarf; X-rays Show It Sucks Up All The Gases And Keeps The Star Close To Feed On | iTech Post http://www.itechpost.com/articles/102433/20200424/black-hole-feasts-white-dwarf-x-rays-show-sucks-up.htm 4 comments
- Unidentified Flaring Object | astrobites https://astrobites.org/2021/09/07/unidentified-flaring-object/ 1 comment
- New Radio Source Towards the Center of Our Galaxy - AAS Nova https://aasnova.org/2021/12/14/new-radio-source-towards-the-center-of-our-galaxy/ 1 comment
- Polarized light reveals final fate of a star “spaghettified” by a black hole | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/polarized-light-reveals-final-fate-of-a-star-spaghettified-by-a-black-hole/ 0 comments
- Black hole “burps” at half the speed of light, years after devouring star | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/10/black-hole-belches-out-remnants-of-gobbled-star-years-after-initial-meal/ 0 comments
- Meet the black hole triplets and quadruplets | astrobites https://astrobites.org/2023/06/17/bh-triplet-quadruplet/ 0 comments
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