NASA satellite spots star-shredding supermassive black hole

Name: NASA satellite spots star-shredding supermassive black hole
Uploaded: 2019-09-30T23:41:00Z
Duration: 1 min 52 s
Description: Tidal disruption events occur when a star passes too close to a black hole, and extreme gravity causes the star to rip apart into a stream of gas. NASA created this visualization to show how the tidal disruption called ASASSN-19bt happened.

Tidal disruption events occur when a star passes too close to a black hole, and extreme gravity causes the star to rip apart into a stream of gas. NASA created this visualization to show how the tidal disruption called ASASSN-19bt happened.

Posted September 30, 2019 7:41pm EDT

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