Science! We get gravitational acceleration, tidal stringing, and redshifting all in one!


Science! We get gravitational acceleration, tidal stringing, and redshifting all in one!

Originally shared by Solar VPS

How a Black Hole Consumes a Star

This amazing footage (from NASA - who else?) shows just how devastatingly powerful a #blackhole  truly is.

Shot over the course of 139 days, this visualization footage shows a supermassive black hole that is approximately 2.7 billion light years away from earth decimating a star. From SPACE.com:

"In this visualization, some of the murdered star's debris falls into the void, but some is spun up and shot out at high velocities.Credit: NASA, S. Gezari (The Johns Hopkins University), and J. Guillochon (University of California, Santa Cruz)."

The arc of stardust that is flung out into the #cosmos  is unbelievable.

It's a #gif  like this that reminds us here at www.solarvps.com that #space  is not only mind boggingly big, but also mind-boggingly violent and treacherous, even for objects as massive as stars.

#cool   #science   #awesome  Solar VPS

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