New study reveals a star's unexpected survival

As the star is shredded, its remnants are transformed into a stream of debris that rains back down onto the black hole to form a very hot, very bright disk of material swirling around the black hole, called an accretion disc.

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Eric Coughlin ,Thomas Wevers ,Dheerajr Pasham ,Kavli Institute For Astrophysics ,Space Research ,Syracuse University ,European Southern Observatory ,Astrophysical Journal Letters ,