Autopsy of a star reveals what was eviscerated by a monster black hole

Ars Technica
By Elizabeth RayneSep 14, 2023, 1:01 pm170 pts
Enlarge / Ions of nitrogen and carbon show up in the spectrum of X-rays from a black hole's accretion disk. (credit: NASA/Chandra) Even huge stars are not always safe out there. When the orbit of a star three times as massive as our own took the star too close to a hefty black hole, the black hole’s gravity…

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