APOD on Nostr: **Astronomy Picture of the Day** 16 June 2024 **Animation: Black Hole Destroys Star** ...
**Astronomy Picture of the Day**
16 June 2024
**Animation: Black Hole Destroys Star**
https://www.youtube.com/embed/ubBzcSD8G8k?rel=0
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What happens if a star gets too close to a black hole? The black hole can rip it apart -- but how? It's not the high gravitational attraction itself that's the problem -- it's the difference in gravitational pull across the star that creates the destruction. In the featured animated video illustrating this disintegration, you first see a star approaching the black hole. Increasing in orbital speed, the star's outer atmosphere is ripped away during closest approach. Much of the star's atmosphere disperses into deep space, but some continues to orbit the black hole and forms an accretion disk. The animation then takes you into the accretion disk while looking toward the black hole. Including the strange visual effects of gravitational lensing, you can even see the far side of the disk. Finally, you look along one of the jets being expelled along the spin axis. Theoretical models indicate that these jets not only expel energetic gas, but also create energetic neutrinos -- one of which may have been seen recently on Earth. Almost Hyperspace: Random APOD Generator
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https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240616.html
16 June 2024
**Animation: Black Hole Destroys Star**
https://www.youtube.com/embed/ubBzcSD8G8k?rel=0
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What happens if a star gets too close to a black hole? The black hole can rip it apart -- but how? It's not the high gravitational attraction itself that's the problem -- it's the difference in gravitational pull across the star that creates the destruction. In the featured animated video illustrating this disintegration, you first see a star approaching the black hole. Increasing in orbital speed, the star's outer atmosphere is ripped away during closest approach. Much of the star's atmosphere disperses into deep space, but some continues to orbit the black hole and forms an accretion disk. The animation then takes you into the accretion disk while looking toward the black hole. Including the strange visual effects of gravitational lensing, you can even see the far side of the disk. Finally, you look along one of the jets being expelled along the spin axis. Theoretical models indicate that these jets not only expel energetic gas, but also create energetic neutrinos -- one of which may have been seen recently on Earth. Almost Hyperspace: Random APOD Generator
#APOD #SpaceStation #SpaceIndustry #Astrochemistry #CosmicWonders
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240616.html