The rare moment could teach us about stellar death.
This illustration depicts a star experiencing spaghettification as it’s sucked in by a supermassive black hole during a ‘tidal disruption event’. In a new study, done with the help of ESO’s Very Large Telescope and ESO’s New Technology Telescope, a team of astronomers found that when a black hole devours a star, it can launch a powerful blast of material outwards.
Nicholl and his colleagues caught a glimpse of the star, which was approximately the same mass as the sun, soon after it started getting ripped apart. These powerful bursts of light are often obscured behind a curtain of interstellar dust and debris, according to Nichols, making it difficult for astronomers to study them in greater detail.
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