Saturday, January 11, 2014

NASA Chandra: Star Consumed by Medium-Sized Black Hole | Video


Just a few hundred thousand times our Sun's mass, the hungry singularity in dwarf galaxy 47 Abell 1795 munched on a nearby star for at least 6 years, while the Chandra X-ray Observatory watched. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart

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