Witness to a Star Being Swallowed by a Black Hole
An international team of astrophysicists led by a Johns Hopkins University scientist has for the first time and ejecting a flare of matter moving at nearly the speed of light.
The finding reported Thursday in the journal Science tracks the star — about the size of our sun — as it shifts from its customary path, slips into the gravitational pull of a supermassive black hole and is sucked in, said Sjoert van Velzen, a Hubble fellow at Johns Hopkins…
