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Astronomers witness star being ‘turned into spaghetti’ by black hole – Yahoo News Australia
Stars which wander too close to vast supermassive black holes are shredded (“spaghettified”) into thin streams of material, which are in turn devoured, releasin…
Astronomers have witnessed the final moments of a star being devoured by a supermassive black hole and its not pretty.
A blast of light from 215 million light years away from Earth allowed astronomers to study the tidal disruption event in unprecedented detail.
Stars that wander too close to vast supermassive black holes are shredded (spaghettified) into thin streams of material, which are in turn devoured, releasing flashes of light.
Matt Nicholl, a Royal Astronomical Society research fellow…
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