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Non Life Sciences => Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology => Topic started by: thedoc on 03/05/2012 21:44:02

Title: What happens when a star falls into a black hole?
Post by: thedoc on 03/05/2012 21:44:02

Astronomers have caught their best glimpse yet of a star being ripped to pieces by a supermassive black hole.

Read the whole story on our  website by clicking here (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/news-archive/news/2548/)

  

Title: Re: What happens when a star falls into a black hole?
Post by: ...lets split up... on 04/05/2012 13:42:58

I read this recently, quite cool.  http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/05/a-burp-of-light-from-a-black-hole-reveals-that-it-ate-a-star.ars

Title: Re: What happens when a star falls into a black hole?
Post by: Soul Surfer on 06/05/2012 23:52:36

Interesting.   An important suggestion was that the star was a red giant.  however for the largest black holes and more normal sized stars it is quite possible for the star to be swallowed whole without a squeak and only be disrupted by the gravity gradient after it has crossed the main event horizon

Title: Re: What happens when a star falls into a black hole?
Post by: yor_on on 07/05/2012 00:07:23

Heh.

That was my initial response reading the question.
But you or someone else already stole my line.

'It burps' :)