NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a tidal disruption event 300 million light years away. The donut shaped remains of a star were found around a hungry black hole.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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00:00Astronomers, using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, have recorded a star's final moments in detail
00:06as it was ripped apart and eaten up by a black hole in a tidal disruption event.
00:12The shredded star is nearly 300 million light-years away,
00:16but astronomers used Hubble's powerful ultraviolet sensitivity to analyze its light
00:22to gather forensic clues of the violent event.
00:25Hubble data found a very bright, hot, donut-shaped area of gas the size of the solar system swirling around a black hole.
00:34The swirling gas was once a star.
00:38Usually, astronomers get just a few observations at the beginning of a disruption event when it's very bright,
00:45but this energetic collision's proximity and brightness allowed Hubble to gather ultraviolet data over a longer-than-normal time period.
00:54This is a rare opportunity for scientists to create models of what they think is going on
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