Its been long huh but have come up with something really interesting to share with you dudes. Heard about the recent homicide being undergone by a supermassive black hole? No? Jeez....then definitely I have got something to perk you up at your systems. Look Johns Hopkins University's department of physics and astronomy have discovered a black hole devouring a wandering star and was caught red handed when it is on its way gulping up this sun-like star (it might even more wow you if I tell you that the whole thing happened just in few weeks!). It waited for the star to come into its ergosphere and then shred it away once it got it's extraordinary gravitational force.It had undergone such a destruction that it outshone all other stars in it's galaxy. Not to get too scientific but the destruction thing was so strong that helium gas was flowing in a stream moving at 32 million kilometers an hour and this is exactly what helped them in figuring out it as a black hole swallow up. This is the first ever discovery of this kind of black hole devouring getting caught on the telescopes though one was found the last year as then it ended up as a real mystery. Letting you folks go into the evidences they're able to see the glow of accretion gas and they're also able to find the spectral composition of the accretion gas as mostly helium. This was made possible using data from the Multiple Mirror Telescope Observatory in Arizona. As an obvious guess the star is reckoned to be a helium cored star ;-)
Date- 6 May, 2012.
Ref: cbc.ca news, redorbit.com
Stay glued to get more updates on this :-)
Signing out yours astro-baby Pranu :-)
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