NASA used multiple telescopes to watch a black hole eat a star that wandered too close to it. Here's what we learned.
of how the star begins to rupture and flatten as it approaches the black hole. Then, as it gets closer, the star is quite literally ripped apart and sucked into the black hole itself. This process is formally called a tidal disruption event.
Now, NASA is hoping to learn more about these events by digging deeper into this one. By learning more about what happens when a black hole eats a star, we can learn more about thehave when other celestial entities come too close. It’s an intriguing study that should yield some even more intriguing results in the long run.
Additionally, because NASA had so many telescopes focused on this particular event, there is more than enough data for astronomers to build off of as they study it more in-depth. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory says that a team looking into these tidal disruption events has formed, and hopefully, we’ll see more from that in the coming months and years.
For now, we can at least watch the animations that people have created to simulate these kinds of events, which truly are both intriguing and terrifying at the same time.
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