View Tidal Disruption Events Images. Astronomers illuminate the role of rapidly spinning black holes in tidal disruption events. What happens when a star gets torn apart by a supermassive black hole?

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Nasa goddard space flight center nasa/cxc/u. Tidal disruption events, or tdes, occur when a star is shredded by a massive black hole. Artist's representation of a tidal disruption event (a star being torn apart by a black hole).

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Nasa goddard space flight center nasa/cxc/u. What happens when a star gets torn apart by a supermassive black hole? Roughly 90 percent of the biggest black holes are dormant, meaning that they are not actively devouring matter and therefore not giving off any light or other radiation. In a galaxy, roughly once every ten thousand years, a star gets disrupted by the strong tidal forces of the central supermassive black hole.