"Astronomers Detect Radio Signals from Star-Eating Black Hole" Topic
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| Tango01 | 27 Mar 2018 12:50 p.m. PST |
"Based on theoretical models of black hole evolution and observations of distant galaxies, astronomers have a general understanding for what transpires during a so-called tidal disruption event: as a star passes close to a black hole, the black hole's gravitational pull generates tidal forces on the star, similar to the way in which the moon stirs up tides on Earth. However, a black hole's gravitational forces are so immense that they can disrupt the star, stretching and flattening it like a pancake and eventually shredding the star to pieces. In the aftermath, a shower of stellar debris rains down and gets caught up in an accretion disk — a swirl of cosmic material that eventually funnels into and feeds the black hole. This entire process generates colossal bursts of energy across the electromagnetic spectrum…"
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| Cacique Caribe | 27 Mar 2018 2:18 p.m. PST |
An S.O.S. in some Alien medium and language that we are simply misunderstanding? :) Dan |
| zoneofcontrol | 27 Mar 2018 2:51 p.m. PST |
Wolfman Jack. Gone but not forgotten. |
| Mithmee | 27 Mar 2018 3:28 p.m. PST |
Well given the distance and how long they took to get here, this is something that happened a very long time ago. |
| Cyrus the Great | 28 Mar 2018 4:01 p.m. PST |
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| Winston Smith | 28 Mar 2018 6:04 p.m. PST |
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