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    ‘Hungry’ black hole ate the star, new ‘solar system’ made of dust, watch amazing video with the help of Hubble

    BhagyashreeBy Updated:No Comments2 Mins Read
    Washington: Black holes are often called ‘hunters’ who swallow everything that comes close to them. They remain calm until a wandering star comes near them. When the star approaches the black hole, its powerful gravity rapidly pulls it towards itself. The black hole ‘swallows’ the gas of the star, which emits intense radiation. US space agency NASA astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to record the last moments of a star that was being swallowed by a black hole.

    Such events are called Tidal Disruption Events. Astronomers are using Hubble to find out what happens when a wandering star falls into its gravitational field. NASA has shared the results on social media, in which a supermassive black hole can be seen turning into a ‘doughnut’ after destroying a neighboring star. The size of this donut was as big as a solar system.

    The explosion happened 300 million light years away

    Hubble cannot see AT2022dsb’s tidal event up close because the star engulfing the black hole is located at the center of the galaxy ESO 583-G004, about 300 million light-years away. But astronomers used Hubble’s powerful ultraviolet sensitivity to study the light from the collapsed star. Spectroscopy provides forensic evidence of black hole hunting. NASA has shared the animation of this incident on Twitter.

    Donut was once a star

    The AT2022dsb event was first detected on 1 March 2022 by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae, a network of ground-based telescopes. The collision was close enough to Earth and bright enough for Hubble astronomers to perform ultraviolet spectroscopy. Hubble spectroscopic data can be seen in the animation as a bright, hot doughnut-shaped region of what was once a star.

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    Bhagyashree Soni is a software engineer with soft writing skills. She is a degree holder from the International School of Entrepreneurial Leadership. She has been a state-level badminton champion and chess player. A woman with a forthright attitude enjoys her writing passion as her chosen career. Writing in the context of feminism, social cause and entrepreneurship is her forte.

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