Monday, 11. July 2016

A Telescope the Size of Earth Just Captured a Supermassive Black Hole Eating a Star


Astronomers just got their most precise look to-date at a supermassive black hole gobbling up a star. The research could help us figure out what exactly happens when stars get eaten by black holes — and why those black holes sometimes shoot out jets of particles at nearly the speed of light.

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