HopAlongBunny
06-16-2018, 06:30
"Marshaling a decade’s worth of data from telescopes around the world, scientists have captured new details of a gargantuan black hole feasting on a hapless star, watching as the black hole consumed its prey and burped out a jet of material moving at a significant fraction of the speed of light."
That about sums it up:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/giant-black-hole-swallows-a-star-and-belches-out-a-superfast-particle-jet/
The scale of the event is just mind boggling: "...20 million solar mass supermassive blackhole..."
Artists concept:
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA22355
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That about sums it up:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/giant-black-hole-swallows-a-star-and-belches-out-a-superfast-particle-jet/
The scale of the event is just mind boggling: "...20 million solar mass supermassive blackhole..."
Artists concept:
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA22355
image details on left side; scroll down for wallpapers