Polarized light reveals final fate of a star “spaghettified” by a black hole - Ars Technica

It's “the first time anyone has deduced the shape of the gas cloud around a spaghettified star.”

Enlarge/ If a star (red trail) wanders too close to a black hole (left), it can be shredded, or spaghetified, by the intense gravity. Some of the stars matter swirls around the black hole, like water… [+5159 chars]

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