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Watch a black hole fall into a star and then blow up
GRB 250702B lasted about seven hours and is linked to a black hole consuming a star in a dusty galaxy eight billion light-years away, marking a new type of stellar explosion.
- NASA on Dec. 8 released visualization of GRB 250702B, first detected on July 2, which lasted seven hours, making it the longest gamma-ray burst recorded.
- Researchers argue the most plausible cause is a black hole consuming a star, as NASA scientists say, while intermediate‑mass black hole scenarios remain debated.
- Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope showed one-second variability suggesting a small black hole, while Einstein Probe detected x-ray brightening a day earlier and Swift, VLT, and Hubble located the afterglow near the galaxy's dust lane.
- The discovery has produced numerous papers and prompted coordinated global observations by space scientists, with confirming the mechanism potentially reshaping black‑hole demographics.
- Ongoing follow-up shows scientists debate the black hole's size and star-killing method while x-ray and radio observatories search near the galaxy's dark dust lane, Eleonora Troja said.
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Space scientists release stunning images of black hole eating star
Scientists say the best explanation for the longest gamma ray burst is that a black hole consumed a star, but they disagree on exactly how it happened.
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Long-lasting gamma-ray burst is a unique puzzle
Unusually long gamma-ray bursts require more exotic origins than typical gamma-ray bursts. This animation illustrates one proposed explanation. It shows a black hole eating a stellar-mass star. As the black hole makes its last few orbits, it pulls large amounts of gas from the star. The system begins to shine brightly in X-rays. Then, as the black hole enters the main body of the star, it rapidly consumes stellar matter, resulting in a gamma-ray…
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