Tag: Ultimate Fate

$If a star (red trail) wanders too close to a black hole (left), it can be shredded, or spaghettified, by the intense gravity. Some of the star’s matter swirls around the black hole, like water down a drain, emitting copious X-rays (blue). Recent studies of these so-called tidal disruption events suggest that a significant fraction of the star’s gas is also blown outward by intense winds from the black hole, in some cases creating a cloud that obscures the accretion disk and the high-energy events happening within. Credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss$

Astronomy

The Ultimate Fate Of A Star Shredded By A Black Hole

MessageToEagle | July 12, 2022

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – In 2019, astronomers observed the nearest example to date of a star that was shredded, or “spaghettified,” after approaching too close to