Supermassive black hole (IMAGE)

Syracuse University

Supermassive black hole

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Artist’s depiction of a supermassive black hole tearing apart a star, with roughly half of the stellar debris flung back into space while the remainder forms a glowing accretion disk around the black hole. 

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Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab

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