"Researchers made the discovery when they used a powerful radio telescope facility — the Very Large Array in New Mexico – to check in on some two dozen black holes where stars had been shredded after coming too close to them. That is, the material in the star was pulled apart, or "spaghettified." Such happenings are called tidal disruption events, or TDEs... the best estimate we have is about two years after the star got eaten by this black hole is when this outflow began — and that's really exciting. That's never been seen before... In other words, the star got close enough to the black hole to get shredded – but not to fall into that point of no return."
More information at NPR.
Tnhkas!
ReplyDeleteA word to explain the stretches thin nature of matter than experiences the intense gravity and speed surrounding a black hole. With very massive objects the whole day, planet or star, can't immediately be pulled into a black hole as it approaches.... However the edge closest to the black hole gets pulled and stretched like a rubber band between the object and the black hole and through this leading edge erosion and subsequent spooling around the spinning black hole that normal matter when approaching the event horizon is slurped up in streams around the gravity well.
ReplyDeleteAka make matter look like noodles by stretching and slurping it into a black hole like snot circling a toilet drain getting elongated as it goes.
Sphaghettified?
ReplyDelete*sigh* I think I'll change the title to "pastafied"
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