3 Black Holes Caught Eating Massive Stars in NASA Data

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3 Black Holes Caught Eating Massive Stars in NASA Data

A disk of hot gas swirls around a black hole in this illustration. Some of the gas came from a star that was pulled apart by the black hole, forming the long stream of hot gas on the right, feeding into the disk.

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NASA/JPL-Caltech

Black holes are invisible to us unless they interact with something else. Some continuously eat gas and dust...