Huge Black Hole Wakes Up, Devours A Star And Emits X-rays. A dormant, supermassive black hole suddenly wakes up to destroy a nearby, wandering star.

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Huge Black Hole Wakes Up, Devours A Star And Emits X-rays
A dormant, supermassive black hole suddenly wakes up to destroy a nearby, wandering star.

By Staff Writer | Jun 24, 2016 01:21 PM EDT
Supermassive black hole
In this artist's rendering, a thick accretion disk has formed around a supermassive black hole following the tidal disruption of a star that wandered too close. Stellar debris has fallen toward the black hole and collected into a thick chaotic disk of hot gas.

(Photo : NASA/Swift/Aurore Simonnet, Sonoma State University)

For the first time, astronomers from the University of Michigan and University of Maryland have mapped the flow of gas near a huge black hole, Swift J1644+57. This one suddenly woke up from a "dormant state" to destroy and swallow a star nearby.

Most of the black holes in the universe are dormant. "But sometimes a star wanders too close to a dormant black hole and the ensuing feeding frenzy, known as a tidal disruption event, sets off spectacular fireworks," according to scientists. That is what happened outside Swift J1644+57.

There were X-rays that bounced from within the walls of its accretion disk, following an event of a tidal disruption, and they were documented by astronomers.

http://www.hngn.com/articles/201197/20160624/black-hole-wakes-devours-star-x-rays.htm

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