Black Hole Tears Star to Shreds, Unleashing Cosmic Shockwaves
Black Hole Tears Star to Shreds, Unleashing Cosmic Shockwaves
This is interesting, I will add a link to NICER (see article) to the links page.
Black holes seem really complex, and there is probably much more to learn. It is also worth watching the two videos as a further explainer to the research and the resulting paper.
So this is looking at a black hole, and how it is interacting with a local star trapped within its gravitational pull, As the star is pulled apart, some of the matter becomes a disk around the black hole, however this matter is then also interacting with another star.
If I understand the paper or at least article, this event links tidal disruption events * and quasi-periodic eruptions, helping astronomers understand black hole environments and shape future research
- The above link is to Wikipedia, as this is NOT an academic source of information, please use a different source, link is for reference only
On an unrelated note, according to the Solar System series by Professor Brian COX, Rings have formed around planets when an object such as an asteroid gets caught in the gravitational pull of the planet, Moons are also objects that have been caught up.
I am not sure if the two phenomenons are related in that stars being ripped apart by a black hole are a similar event, just on a much larger scale.
According to MIT there have been other similar events detailed here
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#Science,#Astronomy.#Physics,#AstroPhysics,#BlackHole
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