When a star meets a black hole

[spinbaby]

I thought this was interesting:



http://unbelievable-facts.tumblr.com/post/81613612725/when-a-star-meets-a-black-hole

[GetRidOfThem]

1. Indeed it is!

Cool animation!

[yodermon]

2. VERY cool. I wonder who created this,

NASA or some other entity? I wish they'd let the simulation run a little longer, i'd love to see how the gases get sucked back in and (probably) form a rotating disk.

The tumlbr comments, though... don't know whether to laugh or cry..

[Glassunion]

9. The tumlbr comments...

[LuvNewcastle]

3. Beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

I wish we could see space tourism for common people in my lifetime, but I don't think that's going to happen in the next 30-40 years. I suppose it could happen if we began to studiously work on it now, but we have too many other priorities at this time.

[dembotoz]

4. lets hope that does not happen to our sun for a very long time

[LiberalEsto]

5. Good analogy for how a corporation sucks in and destroys a working person. nt

[Warpy]

8. Stretches them to the breaking point and sucks all the life out of them?

Yeah, you got it.

[sarin]

6. More information at

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/galex/galex20120502.html

This is a simulation, but still very interesting.

[mindwalker_i]

7. Think about how much energy it take to rip apart a star -

an object with enough mass to generate enough gravity to sustain a fusion reaction. There's a saying that black holes are where God divided by zero. This is a great illustration.

[Glassunion]

10. Around the black hole in 138 days...

Here is another NASA animation with elapsed time.

[tridim]

11. The only thing cooler is when a black hole meets another black hole.

The theory is that the additive gravity warps and twists space-time so much that they begin act like electrons orbiting protons. Viewed from a distance the smaller black hole will appear to jump energy levels just like electrons do!

[Soylent Brice]

12. that's awesome.