10-13-2020, 11:18 PM
The Atlas Telescope and Pan-STARRS-1 on Haleakala were two of the observatories around the world that witnessed what has been called the spaghettification of a star by a black hole. As the black hole's gravity pulled at the star, the star stretched into a long strand as it was absorbed. I'm no astronomer, but from my experience with spaghetti and other try-this-at-home items, I might personally call it the Play-Doh-afication of a star. Spaghetti already starts as a long strand, whereas Play-Doh is rolled into a round lump, then pulled and stretched into a ribbon, one hand symbolizing the star, the other hand a black hole. Here's the detailed explanation from researchers, with an artist's rendering of the event:
“The idea of a black hole ‘sucking in’ a nearby star sounds like science fiction. But this is exactly what happens in a tidal disruption event,” says Matt Nicholl, a lecturer and Royal Astronomical Society research fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK, and the lead author of the new study. But these tidal disruption events, where a star experiences what’s known as spaghettification as it’s sucked in by a black hole, are rare and not always easy to study.
https://sciencesprings.wordpress.com/202...lack-hole/
And for even more detail:
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/4...82/5920142
“The idea of a black hole ‘sucking in’ a nearby star sounds like science fiction. But this is exactly what happens in a tidal disruption event,” says Matt Nicholl, a lecturer and Royal Astronomical Society research fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK, and the lead author of the new study. But these tidal disruption events, where a star experiences what’s known as spaghettification as it’s sucked in by a black hole, are rare and not always easy to study.
https://sciencesprings.wordpress.com/202...lack-hole/
And for even more detail:
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/4...82/5920142