Black hole absorbs a star (render)

    For some reason, a very beautiful animation passed by as a black hole swallows a star literally tearing it apart.



    The event occurred at a distance of 290 million light-years from Earth, in the center of the galaxy PGC 043234, from three observatories (Chandra X-ray Observatory, Swift Gamma-ray Burst Explorer, and ESA / NASA's XMM-Newton) in the X-ray spectrum captured "tidal destruction" stars with a black hole, after which a render was collected from the data obtained.
    Strong black hole gravity pulls the star into itself, heating up to millions of degrees and generating a huge amount of x-ray radiation. After a burst of x-ray radiation, the amount of luminescence decreases, as the material falls beyond the black hole event horizon, the point beyond which the light cannot escape, and the gas component twists in a spiral and falls on the BH.
    In this example, scientists first observed how this event occurs live, well, or practically live.

    Unfortunately this is just a render, but even it is beautiful.




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