Black Hole swallows a star: First time ever seen.

[Veho Nex]

First time ever, black hole caught consuming light from a star.

For the first time, a black hole has been caught in the act of tearing apart and swallowing a star that got too close.

Scientists, who until now had witnessed only the aftermath of such events, say the observation is shedding light on "relativistic jets," bursts of matter that shoot out at nearly the speed of light.

[Cute Wolf]

it's actually frightening if you think about their "real" diameters and distances involved....

for your info, the scale is much larger than earth to sun distances, or maybe, even the edge to edge of the solar system

[rajpoot]

Very intriguing. I've always been fascinated by this kind of stuff.
But it also makes me feel thankful that I won't be alive to see this happen to the sun.

[johnhughthom]

You never know, you might get lucky.

[Cute Wolf]

You never know, you might get lucky.

only if you can life under gravitational wave from a black hole, from 1 AU first (and it may suck most of our atmosphere first)

[johnhughthom]

Surely if it came from the right direction it would start to suck mass from the sun before we felt it's effects? I'm no physics expert though so I could be totally wrong.