![]() The observation may have solved a long-standing question of why flares from these events are 100 times colder than predicted. "A lot of the stellar debris was actually driven out of the system by the energy released as the black hole fed." "Enabled by the proximity and good data, we were able to get an amazing insight into the feeding process, and see how messy an eater this black hole was," he explained. Matt Nicholl, lead author on the recent study, assistant professor at the University of Birmingham, and Royal Astronomical Society research fellow, said that these star-destroying "tidal disruption events" (Opens in a new tab) are quite rare, especially so close, and researchers got some really beautiful observations of this one. It was the closest observation of such an event to date, and a particularly illuminating one for looking at what happens to the parts of stars that aren’t immediately consumed and instead ejected back out of black holes. 12 study (Opens in a new tab) published through the Royal Astronomical Society. That’s precisely what astronomers around the world observed (Opens in a new tab) over a six-month period when a black hole stretched and ripped apart a star that was sucked into its intense gravitational grasp at a distance of 215 million light years from Earth, as detailed in an Oct. Spaghettification sounds like a particularly unpleasant thing to happen to pretty much anything that isn't a lump of pasta dough.
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