The agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said that multiple telescopes recently watched a massive black hole about 10 times the mass of our sun located about 250 million light-years away from Earth 'tearing apart an unlucky star that wandered too close.'
December 21, 2022, 2:33 PMWhat happens when a star gets too close to a black hole? "Unusually close" observations from NASA reveal just how complex and catastrophic it can be.said on Tuesday that multiple telescopes recently watched a massive black hole about 10 times the mass of our sun located about 250 million light-years away from Earth "tearing apart an unlucky star that wandered too close.
"The side of the star nearest the black hole was pulled harder than the far side of the star, stretching the entire thing apart and leaving nothing but a long noodle of hot gas," NASA said.in September. The study said that the event also provided an "unprecedented view" of one element of the process – the formation of a corona. This happened as the star was being demolished and spawned a "dramatic rise" in high-energy X-ray light, NASA said. As that happened, the corona formed above the black hole.
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