As most of us know, black holes are such “massive” structures that not even light can escape its gravitational pull. For this reason, we can only detect black holes, which we can call these “ghosts” of space, by observing their effects on surrounding objects. Recently, NASA announced that the Hubble Space Telescope at a conference with the American Astronomical Society. the ‘swallowing’ of a star around a black hole announced that it had been discovered.

According to the shared information and representative images, the star, entering the black hole’s orbit, began to disintegrate by being caught by the black hole’s gravity. The star, which has a tail behind it, increases in size as the degree of fragmentation increases. completely disappeared and was replaced by a warm cosmic nebula swirling around the black hole.

The stages of the black hole splitting the star were as follows:

• The star gets too close to the black hole.
• Gases in the star’s outer atmosphere are attracted to the gravitational pull of the black hole and form a tail.
• The star is completely crushed by gravity.
• The nebula that remains of the star forms an annular nebula around the black hole. This nebula eventually sinks completely into the black hole and emits an enormous amount of light and radiation into space.

The event in question was approx 300 million light years away took place. Of course, the data obtained by Hubble didn’t bear much resemblance to the black hole-star collisions in Hollywood productions.

NASA shared a video about the discovery on the Goddard YouTube channel, but since the discovery was made by examining ultraviolet light, which the human eye cannot see, the event was animated in the video. representative images is located.

Video shared by NASA of the discovery that the black hole swallowed the star

This event, which was recorded as AT2022dsb, was the first March 1, 2022It was detected by a network of Earth-based telescopes within the All Space Automated Supernova Survey (ASAS SN) in . After detecting the event, Hubble turned its focus in this direction and made sure that more details could be obtained. So technically the event was not newly discovered, but the details were shared after analyzing the collected data for 1 year.

So what will this discovery do?

Peter Maksym of the Astronomical Society argues that observing star-eating black holes under normal conditions is very difficult, and the difference with the new discovery on this point is that it has continued to collect data for a year. Maksym, the event in question the intersection of the known and the unknown as explained. It should also be noted that data on the incident in question is still being collected.