Website review: MPE : News - PR 20080416
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Ajihad discovered 3 months ago- Black Hole Mayhem Light echo of a high-energy flash from a black hole first observed in detail & nbsp; From the Page >>>> When a star is disrupted by a black hole in the nucleus of a galaxy, its debris is inevitably attracted and absorbed by the black hole. This sudden increase in the accretion rate causes an abrupt burst of ultraviolet and X-ray light because the gas from the disrupted star becomes very hot. As the high-energy radiation travels through the core of the galaxy it illuminates surrounding matter and so makes it possible to probe regions of the galaxy that would otherwise be unobservable. Credits : MPE/ ESA Super Massive Black Hole Feasting on a Star An artist's visualization of a star that wandered too close to a supermassive black hole in galaxy RX J1242-11. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/18feb_mayhem.htm Black holes aren't the only things that cause strong tides. Jupiter can do it, too. This illustration shows Comet Shoemaker/Levy crashing into Jupiter in 1994, after the comet was torn apart by the giant planet's tides. Although on a very different scale, the physical mechanism for the breakup of Shoemaker/Levy also caused the disruption of the star in RX J1242-11. Credits : Oribiting Observatories &nb sp; NASA's Chandra & ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray
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- From the page: "Light echo of a high-energy flash from a black hole first observed in detail"
