{"id":38915,"date":"2022-12-01T09:34:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T09:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyatnightmagazine.com\/?p=114219"},"modified":"2022-12-01T10:10:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T10:10:17","slug":"astronomers-discover-what-happens-when-a-sun-like-star-meets-a-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/rss_feed\/astronomers-discover-what-happens-when-a-sun-like-star-meets-a-black-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers discover what happens when a Sun-like star meets a black hole"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Chris Lintott\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 01 December 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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E<\/span>veryone loves black holes<\/a>, especially when they\u2019re doing classic black hole things like ripping stars apart and consuming them whole.<\/p>\n

The authors of this month\u2019s paper, led by Fulya Kiroglu from Northwestern University<\/a> just outside Chicago, use powerful simulations to look at what happens when a Sun-like star, minding its own business, encounters a black hole that outweighs it by a factor of between a hundred and a thousand.<\/p>\n