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LOS ANGELES
Astronomers reported
Wednesday the first strong evi
dence of a supermassive black
hole stretching, tearing apart
and partially gobbling up a star.
The event had long been pre
dicted by theory but never con
firmed.
“This is really fantastic stuff.
This is one of the Holy Grails of
astronomy,” said astronomer
Alex Filippenko of the
University of California at
Berkeley.
A powerful X-ray blast drew
the attention of astronomers to
the event, located near the center
of an otherwise inconspicuous
galaxy called RX J1242-11. The
galaxy is about 700 million
light-years from Earth.
The international team of
astronomers believes the blast
was produced as debris from the
destroyed star was sucked into
the black hole.
“The last cry of help before
the matter falls into the black
hole is radiated in X-rays, which
we have detected,” said Gunther
Hasinger, of the Max Planck
Institute for Extraterrestrial
Physics in Germany.
The resulting flare was thou
sands of times brighter than all
of the billions of other stars in
the galaxy, astronomers said
during a NASA news confer
ence broadcast from
Washington.
A black hole is a massive
but unseen celestial object that
has such an intense gravitation
al pull that nothing — not even
light — can escape from it.
This particular black hole is
estimated to have a mass 100
million times that of the sun.
Astronomers said an unlucky
star about the size of our sun
neared the black hole after
veering off course following a
close encounter with another
star.
The tremendous gravity of
the black hole stretched the star,
ripping it apart in perhaps just
hours or days. The star pame
apart at a distance from the
black hole comparable to the
140 million miles that separates
the sun and Mars.
“In this case, David can’t
outwit Goliath and Goliath wins
because ultimately, gravity wins
here,” NASA astronomer Kim
Weaver said.
The black hole consumed
anywhere from 1 percent to 25
percent of the doomed star,
flinging the rest out into space.
Astronomers used NASA’s
Chandra and the European
Space Agency’s XMM-Newton
X-ray observatories to capture
the event.
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to occur just once every 10,000
years in a typical galaxy,
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