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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.
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, can be seen in theatres THIS FRIDAY
Never argue with an idiot, he'll just lower you to his level and beat you with experience.
I'm a subscriber and there was no mention of it until well after the story had gone live.
We can't have people thinking illustrations are photographs or simulations.
See the comment above by another subscriber validating Amsterdam Vallon's statement that he did, in fact, inform the editors to add the blurb and that said blurb did not exist until Amsterdam Vallon notified them.
I found the real imagery dataset here!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
or better yet,
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