This artist’s impression illustrates how it might look when a star approaches too close to a black hole, where the star is squeezed by the intense gravitational pull of the black hole. Some of the star’s material gets pulled in and swirls around the black hole forming the disc that can be seen in this image. In rare cases, such as this one, jets of matter and radiation are shot out from the poles of the black hole.

A distant black hole is caught in the act of annihilating a star

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This artist’s impression illustrates what it might look like when a star gets too close to a black hole, where the star is squeezed by the black hole’s intense gravitational pull. Some of the material from the star is sucked up and swirls around the black hole forming the disk that can be seen in …

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