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Chandra Sees Black Hole Rip Star Apart
beeplet writes "Nasa just sent out this press release titled about an exciting Chandra observation. It states: "Thanks to two orbiting X-ray observatories, astronomers have the first strong evidence of a supermassive black hole ripping apart a star and consuming a portion of it.
The event, captured by NASA's Chandra and ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray Observatories, had long been predicted by theory, but never confirmed."
There is more information on the Chandra home page, including the x-ray and optical observations that were involved in the discovery." Note that the star-ripping pictured on the front page is labeled an illustration, rather than an recorded image.
this is fucking stupid
i have a P8D in physics and i could show you a proof proving that this is not true
it involves numbers that carnt be expressed on a regular keyboard so i wont bother. you probably wouldnt understand anyway
jimdo
~carnt afford account so im signing this
like the other reply says, NOBODY who knows anything about black holes doubts they exist.
in fact, if they DIDN'T exist we'd be totally screwed.
it's a shame this "interest" you speak of is totally divorced from "understanding", or at least in your case.