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Astronomy Picture of the Day - A Black Hole Disrupts a Passing Star
NASA ^ | 5 May, 2024 | Illustration Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech

Posted on 05/05/2024 1:02:38 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: What happens to a star that goes near a black hole? If the star directly impacts a massive black hole, then the star falls in completely -- and everything vanishes. More likely, though, the star goes close enough to have the black hole's gravity pull away its outer layers, or disrupt, the star. Then, most of the star's gas does not fall into the black hole. These stellar tidal disruption events can be as bright as a supernova, and an increasing amount of them are being discovered by automated sky surveys. In the featured artist's illustration, a star has just passed a massive black hole and sheds gas that continues to orbit. The inner edge of a disk of gas and dust surrounding the black hole is heated by the disruption event and may glow long after the star is gone.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; blackhole; nasa
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1 posted on 05/05/2024 1:02:38 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 05/05/2024 1:02:57 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; abb; AFB-XYZ; AFPhys; Agatsu77; America_Right; ...
Pinging the APOD list

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3 posted on 05/05/2024 1:03:26 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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another pic showing the illustrators stupidity... isnt that point of a black hole so strong a gravitational force that light cant even escape it??
4 posted on 05/05/2024 1:08:15 PM PDT by sit-rep
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Light can’t escape beyond the event horizon - the sphere surrounding the black hole where the gravitational attraction is so strong that the escape velocity exceeds the speed of light. Black holes emit ion jets that are visible in different wavelengths and outside of the event horizon there are gas and dust clouds that glow. What this picture demonstrates is a passing star losing mass to the black hole - think of it as a whirlpool injecting star matter as it passes.


5 posted on 05/05/2024 1:22:45 PM PDT by stormer
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To: sit-rep

There’s typically an accretion disk of stuff not yet fallen in, in a tight orbit around black holes, which are orbiting at extremely high speeds and with very different speeds at different heights, leading to extreme frictional heating and temperatures in the accretion disk. That’s what’s depicted here.


6 posted on 05/05/2024 1:27:11 PM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: stormer

so we shouldnt see the lit orange under lit rim of the hole, nor should we see the stars beyond under the rim....


7 posted on 05/05/2024 2:42:16 PM PDT by sit-rep
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To: MtnClimber

Hmmm...
For a moment I thought the article was going to be a review of our recent trip through DC to eat at a northern VA restaurant...


8 posted on 05/05/2024 3:16:12 PM PDT by SuperLuminal ( Where is Samuel Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: MtnClimber
OJ 287. A 18 billion solar mass black hole orbited by a 150 million solar mass black hole. Twice every 12 years the smaller black hole punches through the accretion disk of the larger Black Hole producing a flash a trillion times the luminosity of the Sun.
9 posted on 05/05/2024 3:23:38 PM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: sit-rep

You need to zoom in. The actual black hole is tiny in this image. All the other stuff is the accretion disc and the gasses from the wayward star.


10 posted on 05/05/2024 3:59:07 PM PDT by stormer
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Wow.


11 posted on 05/05/2024 5:18:39 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: MtnClimber

I dislike that they bill this as PICTURE of the day then post a damned ‘illustration’...


12 posted on 05/05/2024 8:40:37 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: logi_cal869
I dislike that they bill this as PICTURE of the day then post a damned ‘illustration’...

This is a gripe of mine too, but only my third biggest gripe. My gripes:

1) Pandering to substandard muslim photos.

2) Pandering to substandard chinese photos.

3) Posting illustrations and animations when they have huge stockpiles of real photos using technology, and taken by people who honor Western Civilization.

13 posted on 05/06/2024 3:57:05 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Where is that “passing” star headed?


14 posted on 05/06/2024 9:24:40 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!)
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Where is that “passing” star headed?

And what was it doing in such a bad neighborhood?

15 posted on 05/06/2024 11:10:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Agreed.


16 posted on 05/06/2024 12:23:15 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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