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Telescopes capture supermassive black hole devouring star – Macau Business
Astronomers have captured the moment a supermassive black hole shredded a star the size of our Sun, releasing images Monday …
Astronomers have captured the moment a supermassive black hole shredded a star the size of our Sun, releasing images Monday showing the devastating process in unprecedented detail.
Using telescopes from the European Southern Observatory (ESO), they were able to monitor light flaring from the process — known as a tidal disruption event — from a black hole just over 215 million light years from Earth.
They observed the star being physically torn apart as it was sucked into the black hole’s gian…
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