The NEW PHYSICS of Black Hole Star Capture | Extreme Tidal Disruption Events

If you track the motion of individual stars in the ultra-dense star cluster at the very center of the Milky Way you’ll see that they swing in sharp orbits around some vast but invisible mass—that’s the Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole. These are perilous orbits, and sometimes a star wanders...

18 min - Space & the Universe - PBS Space Time

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