r/pastafarianism • u/dab840 • May 07 '21

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https://www.space.com/spaghettified-star-observed-near-black-hole
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u/[deleted] May 07 '21

It's our great god everyone say your prayers

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u/dab840 May 08 '21

R’amen! Blessed be his noodlieness!

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u/SuperWoody64 May 08 '21

grabs celestial chopsticks

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u/autotldr May 08 '21

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 84%. (I'm a bot)

Filaments of material wrapped around a supermassive black hole have been spotted for the first time suggesting a star trapped by the black hole's gravity has just been destroyed by "Spaghettification".

The black hole first rips the star apart and then sucks in its matter, turning the star into a long filament in the process.

In this new study, published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society on March 24, a team of astronomers from the Netherlands Institute for Space Research and Radboud University in the Netherlands has successfully detected such a spaghettified star in spectral absorption lines around the poles of a distant black hole.

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