Bengaluru: India’s AstroSat and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s Space observatories have captured dramatic eruptions from stellar wreckage around a massive black hole, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) said in a statement on Thursday. It provides astronomers with valuable insights, linking two mysteries where there had previously only been hints of a connection.
A massive black hole has torn apart one star and is now using that stellar wreckage to pummel another star or smaller black hole that used to be in the clear. This discovery was made using NASA’s space observatories-Chandra, HST, NICER, Swift-and Isro’s AstroSat. In 2019, astronomers witnessed the signal of a star that got too close to a black hole and was destroyed by the black hole’s gravitational forces.
