European Southern Observatory (ESO) | Animation of a black hole swallowing a star @ESOobservatory | Uploaded 1 year ago | Updated 9 hours ago
This animation is an artist’s impression of how the material of a star fell towards the black hole at the centre of a distant galaxy, producing jets of matter and radiation. Because the jets are pointing almost towards us, the event, called AT2022cmc, could be discovered from Earth with an optical telescope for the first time.

Credit: ESO/M.Kornmesser

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