INSIDEN24.COM – Spatial observations NASA recently found a black hole swallowing a wandering star in space.
Observation result NASA in deep space is helping scientists better understand the feeding behavior of black holes complex.
Several telescopes NASA it also recently observed black holes so massive that they tore apart wandering stars that were too close.
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The black hole is located about 250 million light-years from Earth at the center of another galaxy, making it the fifth-closest example of a black hole destroying a star ever observed.
Astronomers noticed a dramatic increase in high-energy X-rays around the black hole after the star was completely destroyed by the black hole’s gravity.
This suggests that as stellar material is pulled towards its fate, it forms superheated structures above so-called black holes. crown.
Satelit NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescopic Array) NASA it is the most sensitive space telescope capable of observing this wavelength of light.
According to a new study published in the Journal of Astrophysics, this event provides unprecedented insight into formation and evolution crown.
These observations show how the destruction of a star by a black hole.
It’s a process officially known as a tidal disturbance event, and it can be used to better understand what happens to material captured by one of these giants before it’s completely gobbled up.
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Scientists study most black holes surrounded by hot gas that has built up over years, if not thousands of years, and formed a disk billions of kilometers in diameter.
In some cases, this disk shines brighter than the entire galaxy.
Even around these light sources, especially around less active black holes, stands out a single star that has been ripped apart and consumed.
And from start to finish, the process often takes just weeks or months.
The observability and short duration of tidal disturbance events make them of great interest to astronomers.
Astronomers can discover how a black hole’s gravity manipulates the material around it, creating incredible light shows and new physical features.
“Tidal disruption events are a kind of cosmic laboratory,” said study co-author Suvi Gezari, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.
Suvi Gezari said they are our window into the real-time feed of the massive black hole lurking at the center of the galaxy.***
