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    The Ultimate Fate of a Star Shredded by a Black Hole

    July 12, 2022, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    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. (Image credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss)

    In 2019 tidal disruption, much of star’s mass ended up in symmetrical cloud that hid a black hole...

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