Sentences with phrase «devours nearby stars»
As the black hole devours nearby stars, some in - falling matter escapes as hot plasma.
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They grew only slowly at first — adding just 1 percent to their bulk in the next 200 million years — because the hyperactive stars that spawned them had blasted away most of the nearby gas that they could have devoured.
Yet it somehow devours only a tiny fraction of its available food supply — a smorgasbord of gas and dust cast off by nearby stars, notes radio astronomer Heino Falcke of Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands.