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It is known that black holes are voracious objects, and that a star that wanders too close can be shredded and consumed by the immense gravitational force of the black hole. Usually, however, astronomers only observe the devastation after the fact. Catching it in the act is far rarer, and has occurred less than a handful of times.
An international team of astronomers has made a new observation of a black hole getting its lunch on, and the event they describe in a paper published in the journal Science is spectacular. For the first time, they have observed not just the star’s demise, but the black hole then ejecting a flare of matter at very close to light speed.
“These events are extremely rare,” said lead author Sjoert van Velzen, a Hubble fellow at Johns Hopkins University. “It’s the first time we see everything from…
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