Likely, in a moment of quiet downtime, you’ve wondered: Just what would happen if a star, burning bright in the sky, wandered by a black hole? What would that meeting look like? What kinds of cosmic things would go down?
Now, thanks to an artistic rendering made available by NASA, you don’t have to leave much to imagination. Above, watch a star stray a little too close to a black hole and get shredded apart by “tidal disruptions,” causing some stellar debris to get “flung outward at high speed while the rest falls toward the black hole.”
This rendering isn’t theoretical. It’s based on observations gleaned from “an optical search by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) in November 2014.” The “tidal disruptions” witnessed above, writes NASA, “occurred near a supermassive black hole estimated to weigh a few million times the mass of the sun in the center of PGC 043234, a galaxy that lies about 290 million light-years away.” It’s a sight to behold.
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I liked the report because I love science a lot ❤
Gotta love it when the technology used to view a black holes effects and patterns is called assassin.
So we didn’t actually see anything. Just an animation. Bunch of crap, show me the real thing.
The mere existence and appreciation of beauty should challenge the roots and foundation of atheism.
A reality which cannot be dreamed to see or imagine..is brought to us.
Thanks.
Respectfully,the awesomeness of such occurrences challenges the roots and foundation of all organized religion. If God exists, all organized faiths have completely misappropriated the truth. Science is closest to true faith in that it never presumes to know the full truth. It is open and accepting of change.
Harikasın.