Black Hole Caught Snacking on 'Super Jupiter' Planet

[hue]

http://www.space.com/20580-black-hole-eats-giant-planet.html

In a cosmic first, astronomers have discovered a black hole chowing down on what may be a giant rogue planet.

The supermassive black hole didn't finish off its meal, which scientists say was either a huge Jupiter-like planet wandering freely through space or a brown dwarf, a strange object that's larger than a planet yet still too small to trigger the internal fusion reactions required to become a full-fledged star.

“This is the first time where we have seen the disruption of a substellar object by a black hole," study co-author Roland Walter, of the Observatory of Geneva in Switzerland, said in a statement. "We estimate that only its external layers were eaten by the black hole, amounting to about 10 percent of the object’s total mass, and that a denser core has been left orbiting the black hole."

[yodermon]

1. ttiuwop n/t

[mindwalker_i]

2. That black hole is going to have serious gas

Now, taxpayers will be on the hook for 5.3 * 10^8 gallons of Pepto Bismol.

[longship]

3. ROFL! You win this thread. nt