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Image of the Day: Supermassive Black Hole Devouring a Star

Image of the Day: Supermassive Black Hole Devouring a Star | Science News | Scoop.it

Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassiveblack hole shredding a star that wandered too close in a galaxy 2.7 billion light-years away. . NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer, a space-based observatory, and the Pan-STARRS1 telescope on the summit of Haleakala in Hawaii wereamong the first to help identify the stellar remains.

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Chandra Spots a Black Hole’s High-Speed Hurricane

Chandra Spots a Black Hole’s High-Speed Hurricane | Science News | Scoop.it
Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have reported record-breaking wind speeds coming from a stellar-mass black hole.
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