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Black hole keeps snacking on white dwarf locked in its orbit
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2117" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.space.com/star-survives-black-hole-approach.html" target="_blank"><strong>Black hole keeps snacking on white dwarf locked in its orbit - Space</strong></a></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Black holes can have a little star gas, as a treat. </strong></p><p></p><p>This <a href="https://www.space.com/15421-black-holes-facts-formation-discovery-sdcmp.html" target="_blank">black hole's</a> parents never told it not to play with its food.</p><p></p><p>An astronomer thinks he's spotted a <a href="https://www.space.com/23756-white-dwarf-stars.html" target="_blank">stellar corpse</a> known as a white dwarf sending out blazes of light, mayday signals from its uncomfortably close orbit of a black hole. And while such a white dwarf is usually the result of a star naturally running out of fuel and exploding, the scientist thinks the black hole itself snatched all of a <a href="https://www.space.com/22471-red-giant-stars.html" target="_blank">red giant's</a> free gas away, triggering the premature death. Such is the peril of treading too close to a black hole even if it can't gobble you up.</p><p></p><p>"In my interpretation of the X-ray data, the white dwarf survived, but it did not escape," Andrew King, author of the new research and an astrophysicist at the University of Leicester in the UK, <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/star-survives-close-call-with-a-black-hole.html" target="_blank">said in a NASA statement</a>. "It is now caught in an elliptical orbit around the black hole, making one trip around about once every nine hours."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2117, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.space.com/star-survives-black-hole-approach.html'][B]Black hole keeps snacking on white dwarf locked in its orbit - Space[/B][/URL] [B] Black holes can have a little star gas, as a treat. [/B] This [URL='https://www.space.com/15421-black-holes-facts-formation-discovery-sdcmp.html']black hole's[/URL] parents never told it not to play with its food. An astronomer thinks he's spotted a [URL='https://www.space.com/23756-white-dwarf-stars.html']stellar corpse[/URL] known as a white dwarf sending out blazes of light, mayday signals from its uncomfortably close orbit of a black hole. And while such a white dwarf is usually the result of a star naturally running out of fuel and exploding, the scientist thinks the black hole itself snatched all of a [URL='https://www.space.com/22471-red-giant-stars.html']red giant's[/URL] free gas away, triggering the premature death. Such is the peril of treading too close to a black hole even if it can't gobble you up. "In my interpretation of the X-ray data, the white dwarf survived, but it did not escape," Andrew King, author of the new research and an astrophysicist at the University of Leicester in the UK, [URL='https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/star-survives-close-call-with-a-black-hole.html']said in a NASA statement[/URL]. "It is now caught in an elliptical orbit around the black hole, making one trip around about once every nine hours." [/QUOTE]
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