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This Is What Happens When Massive Black Hole Gobbles Up Sun-Like Star (VIDEO)

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When a black hole swallows a star, things get violent. Very violent.

At least, that’s what scientists found in a new study when they used computer simulations to mimic the destruction of a star as it falls into a giant black hole. Just check it out in the video.

The simulations show that when the gravitational force of a supermassive black hole pulls in a star, the star is stretched into a long blob before it’s destroyed. About half of the star’s mass may get ejected as a stream of debris and the other half eventually may spiral into the black hole, forming what’s called an “accretion disk.”

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Illustration of a star distorted by supermassive black hole.
Illustration of a star distorted by supermassive black hole.
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Supermassive Black Hole In NGC 1277 Galaxy Among Biggest Discovered

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A supermassive black hole discovered by University of Texas researchers ranks among the largest ever observed.

The enormous black hole is located in NGC 1277, a small, lenticular galaxy 250 million light years from Earth in the constellation Perseus, Space.com reports.

The black hole’s event horizon — the “point of no return” within which nothing can escape — has a diameter 11 times greater than Neptune’s orbit around the Sun, according to a written statement issued by the university’s McDonald Observatory in Austin.

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Galaxy NGC 1277, shown here in a Hubble Space Telescope image, may contain the

largest black hole ever discovered.

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A difficult start: Astronomers reveal how planets can form in the centre of the Milky Way

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At first glance, the center of the Milky Way seems like a very inhospitable place to try to form a planet.

Stars crowd each other, supernova explosions blast out shock waves, and powerful gravitational forces from a supermassive black hole twist and warp the fabric of space itself.

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