NASA has an unusually close glimpse of the black hole nibbling at a star
A disk of hot gas swirls around a black hole in this illustration. Some of the gas came from a star that was pulled apart by the black hole, forming the long stream of hot gas on the right, feeding the disk. These events are officially known as tidal disturbance events, or TDEs. It can …
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