Supermassive black hole rips star apart (simulation)
This simulation shows a star getting torn apart by the gravitational tides of a supermassive black hole. The star gets “spaghettified” and after several orbits creates an accretion disc. Scientists believe that the superluminous ASASSN-15lh event happened like that.
Credit:ESA/Hubble, ESO, N. Stone, K. Hayasaki
About the Video
| Id: | heic1622b |
| Release date: | 12 December 2016, 17:00 |
| Related releases: | heic1622 |
| Duration: | 50 s |
| Frame rate: | 30 fps |
About the Object
| Name: | ASASSN-15lh |
| Type: | Early Universe : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Black Hole |
| Category: | Quasars and Black Holes |
