Mallika Dureja
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The moment a star gets torn apart by a black hole and transformed into a doughnut shape has been captured on film. The researchers involved in the discovery have remarked that it is teaching them a great deal about black holes and that it is “exactly at the interface of the known and the unknown.”
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The gravity of a black hole is so strong that not even light can flee from it.
Their presence can be inferred from the way they affect other stuff, like stars, even though they cannot be directly observed using telescopes that detect x-rays, light, or other forms of electromagnetic radiation.
Astronomers using @NASAHubble have recorded a star’s final moments as it gets gobbled up by a black hole. Stellar shredding like this happens only a few times in every 100,000 years in any given galaxy with a supermassive black hole center: https://t.co/ZhZK4MRK1n #AAS241 pic.twitter.com/GWuL4wJVmF
— NASA (@NASA) January 13, 2023
Even with all the new information we have on black holes, we still have a lot to learn about them. However, the finding of a black hole whirling a star into a doughnut shape has helped us understand them better. Hubble Space Telescope observations revealed the star’s demise at the hands of a black hole about 300 Myr away.
