Astronomers witness the dying flare of a star torn apart by a black hole halfway across the Universe
- Written by: James Miller-Jones, Professor, Curtin University
An unlucky star is torn apart by the strong gravity of a black hole, leading to the launching of a relativistic jet.Carl Knox – OzGrav, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, Swinburne University of TechnologySome stars just get unlucky. There are billions of stars within a typical galaxy. Yet once every 100,000 years or...
