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'Fatal tango': Black hole causes star to explode
Artificial intelligence detected the supernova early, revealing the black hole’s gravitational pull distorted the star and caused a massive explosion releasing more energy than the sun’s lifetime.
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New type of supernova detected as black hole causes star to explode - West Hawaii Today
Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner. They have documented what appears to be a new type of supernova, as stellar explosions are known, that occurred when a massive star tried to swallow a black hole with which it had engaged in a lengthy pas de deux. The star, which was at least 10 times as massive as our sun, and the black hole, which had a similar mass, were gravitationally bound to one…
'Fatal tango': Black hole causes star to explode
An artist's conception shows a massive star being stretched by the gravitational forces of a nearby black hole prior to the star's supernova explosion. Image: Melissa Weiss/Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA)/via Reuters Astronomers have observed the calamitous result of a star that picked the wrong dance partner.
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