Death of Star by Spaghettification Article Summary

Article Link: https://www.space.com/black-hole-star-death-spaghettification

One night, when telescopes were turned to the sky they captured something truly rare; a flash of light emitted from a black hole tearing a star to shreds. This event happened 215 million light-years from Earth so we were extremely lucky to have caught it. Researchers from were able to study the event over a six month time period before the star was completely destroyed. These observations were conducted in “…ultraviolet, optical, X-ray and radio wavelengths.” They found the star being destroyed to be relatively the same size as our own sun and the black hole to be “…more than 1 million times that…” This event, named AT 2019qiz, gave researchers helpful data on how matter behaves in/near the extreme environment of a black hole.

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