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A White Dwarf Swallowed by a Supermassive


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"We think these unusual signatures can be explained by a white dwarf that strayed too close to a black hole and was torn apart by the extreme tidal forces."

Joel Bregman of the University of Michigan.

New results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Magellan telescopes suggest that a dense stellar remnant has been ripped apart by a black hole a thousand times as massive as the Sun in NGC 1399, an elliptical galaxy about 65 million light years from Earth.

In the image above, X-rays from Chandra Space Observatory are shown in blue and are overlaid on an optical image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

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There is a picture of this in the link, Im unable to post that type of photo as this site dont support it, But its an awsome pic, :yes:

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