It will be stretched until it rips,
in a tidal disruption event.
Not exact matches
In this artist's rendering, a thick accretion disk has formed around a supermassive black hole following the
tidal disruption of a star that wandered too close.
If there are more events
in the future, maybe we can see if this is what happens for other
tidal disruption flares.»
Astronomers have caught a handful of black holes
in the act of eating stars, a process they call «
tidal disruption.»
In a rare stroke of luck, astronomers have caught a glimpse of one of these so - called
tidal disruption events, using the x-rays it produced to map out the disk surrounding the black hole.
The first known
tidal disruption event that formed a relativistic jet was discovered
in 2011 by the NASA satellite Swift.
Only a handful of
tidal disruptions have been seen before
in x-rays, and Swift J1644 +57 was the first to be viewed at its peak output.
Scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science found that human - made canals limit the natural
tidal inundation process
in roughly 45 percent of the state's coastline, and
disruptions from levees accounted for 15 percent.
Dozens of these so - called
tidal disruption events have been detected since the 1990s, but none that remained bright for nearly as long as this one,» Dacheng Lin, a research scientist at the University of North Hampshire and the lead author of the paper, said
in a statement.
In this artist's illustration depicting the record - breaking
tidal disruption event, the red shows hotter material that falls toward the black hole and generates a distinct X-ray flare.
Such incidents of stellar cannibalism, also known as
tidal disruption events or TDEs, previously had been found only
in surveys that observed thousands of galaxies at once.
The
tidal disruption flare from this distant black hole was first discovered on Nov. 11, 2014, and subsequent observations using a variety of telescopes have revealed curious pattern
in the energy being emitted.
A study detailing the new findings was published Monday
in the journal Nature Astronomy under the title «The superluminous transient ASASSN - 15lh as a
tidal disruption event from a Kerr black hole.»
The difficulty here was that the key message had been delivered - technology is a
tidal wave of market and industry
disruption and
in order to ride that wave rather than drown, businesses need to attain sufficient technology mastery to enable them to recognise the inflection points and react and adapt
in time.
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