Recent results from the Chandra and XMM Newton telescopes indicate that a star that they have observed is being ripped apart by a supermassive black hole. This is the first observational proof of the well excepted theory. It is always good that theory is proven occasionally, you don't want it to happen all the time as you don't want to give the theorists a big head.
Credit: Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss; X-ray: NASA/CXC/MPE/S.Komossa et al.; Optical: ESO/MPE/S.Komossa For more see: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0402/18starblackhole/ |
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