Astrophysicists have detect that it will take approximately 10,000 years.to destroy a star by central super-massive black hole.
For any given galaxy, it is estimated that a star will be destroyed by The vast majority of known galaxies are thought to contain at least one super-massive black hole in their cores, having a dramatic effect on galactic and stellar evolution.
As a star drifts too close to a super-massive black hole, intense tidal stresses rip the star to shreds. As this happens, the shredded material will be dragged into the black hole’s accretion disk — a hot disk of gas that is gradually pulled into the black hole’s event horizon, bulking up the black hole’s mass, or blasted as energetic jets from its poles.
Should there be a rapid injection of material — i.e. a star becoming blended and ingested into the accretion disk — powerful X-rays of a specific signature will be generated.
In a new study by the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, astrophysicists trawled through observations from two space observatories to discover three likely occasions where stars have been eaten by super-massive black holes. Their work has been accepted for publication in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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