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Hapless star ‘spaghettified’ by black hole. And astronomers capture the gory show in a first. – Livescience.com
A star that’s being “spaghettified” has been observed by astronomers. The star’s long strands can be seen wrapped around a black hole like yarn around a ball.
For the first time, astronomers have caught a glimpse of a star being “spaghettified” as a supermassive black hole rips it apart.
After getting too close to a colossal black hole located 750 million light-years from Earth
and weighing 30 million times the mass of our sun the hapless star was ensnared by the holes gravity
and devoured.
Black holes are messy eaters that like to play with their food. As it drew the star closer, the black holes gravity produced powerful tidal forces, stretching the…
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