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Watch a star get destroyed by a supermassive black hole in the 1st simulation of its kind

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New simulations reveal why tidal disruption events really do look like solar-system-sized stars expanding at a few percent of the speed of light.

They follow the spaghettification of the star through when the debris falls back on the black hole, then a close approach that turns the stream into something like a wriggling garden hose .

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