Do you know that if a star passes too close to a black hole, it can be torn apart?
For close to 20 years, a team of astronomers observed a star at the center of the galaxy orbiting a black hole.
The star has now got close enough to the black hole for ‘gravitational redshifts’ to occur, which is where the starlight loses energy as the black hole's gravity intensified.
Total disruption or the stairs shredded apart when the star moves too close in proximity to the massive black hole.
Usually, a star gets torn apart and ripped into shreds when it comes close to the black hole because of the black hole's immensely powerful gravity. The astronomers refer to this phenomenon as a Total Disruption Event. As a result of this, a huge blast of energy happens, which can be billions of times brighter than the sun.
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