image: Watch eight model stars stretch and deform as they approach a virtual black hole 1 million times the mass of the Sun. The black hole’s gravity rips some stars apart into a stream of gas, a phenomenon called a tidal disruption event. Others manage to withstand their close encounters. These simulations show that destruction and survival depend on the stars’ initial densities. Yellow represents the greatest densities, blue the least dense. BROADCAST QUALITY VIDEO: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14000 view more
Credit: Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Taeho Ryu (MPA)
Article Title
Tidal Disruptions of Main-sequence Stars. I. Observable Quantities and Their Dependence on Stellar and Black Hole Mass
Article Publication Date
25-Nov-2021