NASA has revealed the destruction of the star by a black hole

The black hole tightens the star. Photo: NASA

In the form of computer animation, NASA presented the destruction and death of a star that falls inside a black hole and is torn by the forces of its gravity. The video is based on real events that occurred in a distant galaxy, which is at a distance of 290 millions of light years from Earth. A scientific article on this topic is presented in the journal Nature, and the video published on the NASA website.

With the dangerous approach of a star and a black hole, the powerful gravity of the latter creates tidal forces that tear the space object apart. Such an event, called ASASSN-14li, occurred in the center of the galaxy PGC 043234, near a supermassive black hole.

The substance of the star during a fall into a black hole heats up to several million degrees, resulting in an outbreak of x-ray radiation, which scientists were able to record using telescopes Chandra, Swift and XMM-Newton.

Then, as the substance falls beyond the horizon of the black hole, the flash disappears. However, the gaseous remnants of a star fly in orbit around a point, forming a disk where a black hole absorbs them. The temperature in the center of the disk is so high that it throws out a part of the substance in the form of a “wind”. However, its speed is too low, so that even a small part of the star's remains could avoid falling into the hole.

In August, 2015, the famous physicist Stephen Hawking suggested that hitting a black hole does not always mean decay and destruction - there is a chance to survive and get into another Universe. However, judging by what happens to the stars, the chances of final destruction are much higher.

Stephen Hawking explained to the general public (including through the Hollywood film Interstellar) that information in black holes does not disappear.

Information is stored on the horizon of a black hole event in the form of a hologram.

With such an assumption, Hawking spoke at a conference at the Royal Technical Institute in Stockholm.

Hawking's assumption explains the paradox of the disappearance of information in a black hole - one of the significant problems of modern theoretical physics.