Beautiful video of a Black Hole eating a star

[Brian G Turner]

A beautiful animation visually showing how a Black Hole can shred a star- though obviously on a speeded up timescale.

ADDED: Oh! And here's one with showing the first few days of another, with a timer:

Imagine seeing these things for real? Must be an awesome sight - even though a very distant telescope.

 

[RJM Corbet]

A beautiful animation visually showing how a Black Hole can shred a star- though obviously on a speeded up timescale.

ADDED: Oh! And here's one with showing the first few days of another, with a timer:

Imagine seeing these things for real? Must be an awesome sight - even though a very distant telescope.

Surprisingly quick! Just a few days. We sort of expect astronomical events to happen over astronomical time scales

 

[BAYLOR]

Nothing escapes and nothing survives a blackhole.

 

[Valtharius]

The stars, like dust...

 

[BAYLOR]

The stars, like dust...

A good book.

 

[hitmouse]

Nothing escapes and nothing survives a blackhole.

Well, Stephen Hawking would disagree.

 

[RJM Corbet]

Well, Stephen Hawking would disagree.

Might depend on what is a thing? A thing implies information, and information does not emerge as Hawking radiation. The black hole just sort of evaporates into photons?

Just asking, and happy to learn ...

 

[Bowler1]

I eat black holes for breakfast... or is it Cheerios?

I loved that image when it was in the news recently, it is quite something that we're starting to learn about the universe these days.

 

[Ian Fortytwo]

The beauty of space.

 

[Bowler1]

A cruel bueaty.

 

[BAYLOR]

If a Black hole came in our direction , we'd know it fairly quickly , it would affect the orbits of the planet it passed, some probable hurled into space.