Supermassive black hole shreds star in rare tidal disruption

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• Jun 22, 2016

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This is a fascinating rare phenomenon

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016...=facebook-text&utm_campaign=bigblackhole-5210

 

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• Jun 22, 2016

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That picture leaves nothing to the imagination

 

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• Dec 12, 2016

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Another tidal disruption, this time a passing star - ripped apart by a black hole - produced luminous output which "at its peak was 20 times brighter than the total light output of the entire Milky Way"

http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1622/

I feel quite insignificant

 

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• Dec 12, 2016

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Absolutely fascinating! Thanks for that link.

 

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• Dec 12, 2016

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Rare observation. This took a fair amount of collaboration.