Illustration of a black hole sucking gas from a star
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A star appears to be engaged in a deadly dance with a supermassive black hole. A team of astronomers say the unfortunate star is nearly ripped apart every time it makes a sudden turn around the black hole in its orbit. If they’re right, we might see the same thing happen again in two years.
If a star gets close enough to a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy, it can be destroyed by tidal forces: the star is stretched by the black hole’s gravitational field, causing it to…
Source: www.newscientist.com
