Chandra Sees Black Hole Rip Star Apart

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 18, 2004 @10:03AM from the justin-timberlake-did-it dept.

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.

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Re:Cheers by Aquilo · 2004-02-18 15:43 · Score: 0, Redundant

"OUR CURRENT UNDERSTANDING OF physics says that faster than light travel is impossible" if light can travel faster then the "speed of light" why can't we do that with other matter one day? if we don't stop saying every thing is impossible then hey it may just end up that way but if you say it is possible you may just find a way to do it. now when I say "light can travel faster then the speed of light" I will back this up by saying we know that mass can bend and force light to travel faster then the "speed of light".