Spectacular and scary: NASA photo of a black hole “devouring” a star

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The stream of gas that “wreaths” the black hole and leaves a tail to the right is what is left of the star that the black hole “swallowed”

Spectacular as well as terrifying is the NASA photo showing a black hole “devouring” a star.

A disk of hot gas swirls around a black hole that resembles an eye. The stream of gas that “crowns” the black hole and leaves a tail to the right is what remains of the star that the black hole “swallowed”.

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Several NASA telescopes recently observed a massive black hole tearing apart an unlucky star that happened to be too close to it. The black hole is located approx 250 million light years from Earth to the center of another galaxy, and is the fifth closest example of a black hole destroying a star ever observed.

NASA’s NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescopic Array) satellite is the most sensitive space telescope capable of observing these wavelengths of light, and the proximity of the event provided unprecedented insight into this magnificent stellar phenomenon.

How a star decays from a black hole in NASA video:

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