Giant Blackhole Swallows aStar
"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/a...-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...hp?id=PIA22355
image details on left side; scroll down for wallpapers
Reply With Quote
I wonder how long the whole process of consuming that star took? And how long ago it happened...ie. 150 million light years=what, in Earth-time (and how many years at warp speed
)?
Originally Posted by drone
Bookmarks