Caught red-handed star of the black hole in the murder of
Astronomers gathered the most direct evidence of massive black hole crushing of the star that wandered too close. The galaxy evolution explorer from NASA and the Space Observatory, and the general STARRS1 telescope atop Haleakala in Hawaii, among the first to help identify the remains excellent.
Massive black holes, weighing millions to billions of times more than the sun, and hide in the centers of most galaxies. They were monsters strong silent until an innocent victim, a star wanders close enough to get torn apart by strong claws of gravity.
Astronomers have discovered these stars before the murder, but this is the first time identified the victim. Multiple land use and space telescopes, select a team of astronomers led by Suvi Gezari of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore victim helium-rich star. Star in a galaxy light years away 2700000. The findings of the team is published in its issue of today's online issue of the journal Nature.
"When I tore apart a star regardless of the forces of gravity of the black hole, part of the remains of a star falls into the black hole, while the rest is ejected at high speed," said Gezari.
