Ananya Bandopadhyay

Simulation of a star being torn apart by the tidal forces of a supermassive black hole and a stream of material drawn from it

A star's rapid rotation may explain why flares near a black hole fade away

Hydrodynamic simulations suggest that a star that was spinning rapidly before being captured in orbit around a supermassive black hole loses less material with each pass, so the repeated flares become weaker. The same scenario may also explain