NASA announced that astronomers had used the Hubble Space Telescope to record a star's final moments as it was violently ripped apart and eaten up by a black hole.
The agency said the process twisted the star into a donut-like shape in the process.
When a star gets close enough, the gravitational grasp of the black hole violently rips it apart, belching out intense radiation in what is known as a"tidal disruption event." Astronomers are using the telescope to better understand what happens, utilizing its powerful ultraviolet sensitivity to study the light from the AT2022dsb"stellar snacking event." This sequence of artist's illustrations shows how a black hole can devour a bypassing star. 1. A normal star passes near a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy. 2. The star's outer gasses are pulled into the black hole's gravitational field. 3.
The agency recently reported that a high-energy space observatory spotted another such event in March 2021."We're excited because we can get these details about what the debris is doing. The tidal event can tell us a lot about a black hole," Emily Engelthaler, of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, said in a statement.
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