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 ...