Tag: Devouring Of Star

Infrared echoes of a black hole eating a star. Image credit: NASA

New Model Explains What We See When A Massive Black Hole Devours A Star

MessageToEagle.com | May 30, 2018

MessageToEagle.com – Among the most extreme events taking place in the universe, there is special moment when a star wanders too close to the supermassive black hole in the

Artist's impression of an inner accretion flow and a jet from a supermassive black hole when it is actively feeding, for example, from a star that it recent tore apart. Image: ESO/L. Calçada

Astronomy

Signals From Black Hole Consuming Star Located 300 Million Light Years Away

MessageToEagle.com | March 20, 2018

MessageToEagle.com – On Nov. 11, 2014, astronomers picked up signals created by an explosion of electromagnetic energy that occurs when a black hole rips apart a passing star. Since