Some stars survive being pulled close to supermassive black holes, but their repeated bursts of light get weaker. New research suggests the star’s spin could explain why.A hydrodynamical simulation of a star being ripped apart by the tidal forces of a supermassive black hole. Credit: Credit: NASA/ S. Gezari (JHU)/ J. Guillochon (UCSC). A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal and led by a team from Syracuse University has sought to sol…
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In the centre of many large galaxies is a supermassive black hole, the mass of which can reach millions or billions of times that of the Sun. To grow, it absorbs surrounding gas. But where exactly this material comes from...