EarthSky | When a black hole swallows a star earthsky.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from earthsky.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Get latest articles and stories on Science at LatestLY. Black holes are gatherers, not hunters. They lie in wait until a hapless star wanders by. When the star gets close enough, the black hole s gravitational grasp violently rips it apart and sloppily devours its gasses while belching out intense radiation. Science News | Hubble Finds Hungry Black Hole Twisting Captured Star into Donut Shape.
NASA announced that astronomers had used the Hubble Space Telescope to record a star's final moments as it was violently ripped apart and eaten up by a black hole.
Hubble Sees Star Turned into Donut by Hungry Black Hole miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Astronomers have observed a distant black hole make a cosmic meal out of a doomed star, stretching it like taffy and shaping the leftovers into a cosmic donut.