2021 April 27 - Animation: Black Hole Destroys Star
Channel: APOD Podcast
Date: 2021-04-27

In today's image, we see an animation that demonstrates what would happen when a star passes too close to a black hole and is torn apart by its tidal forces. We see the material from the star pulled into an accretion disk around the star and some is expelled out in jets perpendicular to the accretion disk. 

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