The black hole “Pelps” rips the star

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The star in space looks like it passed through a paper shredder.
The black hole “burps”.
It occurs several years after the star has been swallowed.

All this is a puzzle. Astronomers don’t have an explanation for why the black hole suddenly vomited up the shredded star.

—This surprised us, no one had seen anything like this before, lead author Yvette Sindez, an astrophysicist at the Harvard and Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, says in a statement.

It began in 2018. Then astronomers saw how the black hole dragged the unfortunate star inward with the help of gravity. As the star approached the black hole’s “gap”, gravity turned the star into a long, pasta-like filament. It wraps around the black hole like spaghetti around a fork, “spaghetti”.
Then the star shattered to pieces, Live Science wrote.
Three years later, in 2021, a radio telescope picked up New Mexico Even something indicates unusual activity. The black hole began to “burp” the star at half the speed of light, 150 thousand kilometers per second. The event was named AT2018hyz.
In the past, black holes were observed swallowing stars before “spitting” out of them. But so far it has happened in the “meal” itself.

The researchers used four observatories on Earth and two in space to discover the phenomenon.