Black Hole Star Destroyer: Scientists Fling Model Stars at a Virtual Black Hole to See Who Survives - SciTechDaily
November 28, 2021.
This animation depicts a star experiencing spaghettification as it’s sucked in by a supermassive black hole during a ‘tidal disruption event’.Watch as eight stars skirt a black hole 1 million times the mass of the Sun in these supercomputer simulations.Watch eight model stars stretch and deform as they approach a virtual black hole 1 million times the mass of the Sun.
The black hole rips some stars apart into a stream of gas, a phenomenon called a tidal disruption event.
The virtual stars range from about one-tenth to 10 times the Sun’s mass.
From left to right, this illustration shows four snapshots of a virtual Sun-like star as it approaches a black hole with 1 million times the Sun’s massIThe star stretches, looses some mass, and then begins to regain its shape as it moves away from the black hole.
Ryu and his team also investigated how other characteristics, such as different black hole masses and stellar close approaches, affect tidal disruption events.Noble, 25 November 2021, The Astrophysical Journal.
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