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Stellar capture by a supermassive black hole

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posted on 2024-11-29, 00:39 authored by Alister GrahamAlister Graham

Dense, million-strong clusters of stars are often found at the centers of galaxies. This video shows the fate of some of these stars, and an ill-fated planet, that venture too close to the cluster's central supermassive black hole.

Funding

Massive black holes in dense star clusters

Australian Research Council

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The hearts of galaxies

Australian Research Council

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History

Sub-type

  • Film/video/audio recording

Available versions

Published version

Publisher

Swinburne University of Technology

Copyright statement

Copyright © 2013 the author. This is an open access work distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY NC 4.0) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

Notes

A short video that accompanied public launch of related research published in 2012.

Language

eng