To be torn
apart by a black hole... well.
A sun - size star approaching within 30 solar radii of the monster, they calculate, would be ripped
apart by the black hole's gravitational pull, which would be far stronger on the near side of the star than on the far side.
«Ripped
apart by a black hole: Gas cloud makes closest approach to monster at center of Milky Way.»
Dr Pannarale added: «A possible scenario that could produce gamma - ray bursts involves a neutron star, the most compact star in the Universe, being ripped
apart by a black hole while orbiting it.
Below is a short animation simulating a star's magnetic field being torn
apart by a black hole.
It would be an inhospitable area for humanity, rife with radiation emanating from a surplus of massive stars and material being torn
apart by the black hole.
Not exact matches
A giant
black hole ripped
apart a nearby star and then continued to feed off its remains for close to a decade, according to research led
by the University of New Hampshire.
One way to tell these situations
apart is
by the
black holes» spin.
The
black holes make up a high percentage of the compact galaxies» total mass, supporting the theory that the dwarfs are remnants of massive galaxies that were ripped
apart by larger galaxies.
The star got too close to its galaxy's central
black hole about 290 million years ago, and collisions among its torn -
apart pieces caused an eruption of optical, ultraviolet and X-ray light that was first spotted
by scientists in 2014.
That kind of upchuck is precisely what theorists expect to happen when a sunlike star is ripped
apart by the fierce gravity of the
black hole.
New observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope show for the first time a gas cloud being ripped
apart by the supermassive
black hole at the center of the galaxy.
New observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope show for the first time a gas cloud being ripped
apart by the supermassive
black hole at the centre of the galaxy.
See images of new observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope showing a gas cloud ripped
apart by the supermassive
black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way.
On Nov. 11, 2014, a global network of telescopes picked up signals from 300 million light - years away that were created
by a tidal disruption flare — an explosion of electromagnetic energy that occurs when a
black hole rips
apart a passing star.
Later studies
by Caltech and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC), a group of more than 1,200 scientists worldwide, found some evidence that the material in each of the stars might have been torn
apart by the gravity of its companion in a way that
black holes could not.