Black Hole Devours Star -- 139 Days of Stellar Devastation | Video

Astronomers have seen evidence that a supermassive black hole 2.7 billion light years away has shredded a star. In this visualization, some of the murdered star's debris falls into the void, but some is spun up and shot out at high velocities. Credit: NASA, S. Gezari (The Johns Hopkins University), and J. Guillochon (University of California, Santa Cruz)

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[MultiAwesomenessman]

Is this real? Please reply

[VideoFromSpace]

It's an animation based on observed data. So, no, you are not seeing the actual star being shredded. But, yes, the sizes, shapes and – to the extent possible – colors are representative.

[dexobj]

Can a black hole pull light that is moving at C?

[VideoFromSpace]

Can. And does. [That's the simple answer, anyway.]

[t147413]

Maybe try thinking that black holes just don't exist like they are portrayed now. It's theory with lot's of anomaly's, why are they defending this and why are they not looking into alternatives? I don't know, but I certainly don't believe in them since there is no direct evidence of black holes. It's all speculations.

[webcam224]

What am i exactly looking at? Is the red thing a star? Is the star moving?

[Mutoh Turka]

Considering that scientists are still removing the sensationalized views of a black hole from their theories (I HOPE), I hope they can finally think like I do and realize that black holes are highly complicated objects that can, has, and will break all of the rules we humans have beset onto them with no true knowledge. I think each black hole has its own characteristic of abilities and perform tasks beset by variable impacts during its life. I had these thoughts since I was 6.

[SeanXdiscus]

Amazing.

[CodGeronimo]

Obviously?

[deearteezt]

Since, theoretically, white holes smaller than atoms exists everywhere around us as the "wrinkles" of spacetime, is it also possible that we are surrounded by black holes (not created by the Large Hadron Collider)? From how I understand the concept of white holes, it acts as an "exit" or "tail" of a worm hole, which originates from a black hole. Thus, white holes cannot exists without the latter two.