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What is a black hole and what did NASA and its partners discover?

How does a black hole destroy a star?

How did NASA and other observatories work together to capture this moment?

What new things did we learn from this catastrophic event?

How far away is this black hole? Could our Sun be eaten by a black hole?

Black holes are black right? How do scientists study something that can’t be seen?Where can we learn more?

QUESTIONS FOR LONGER INTERVIEWS:

How does a planet-hunting mission help us learn about black holes?

How did the scientists involved first learn about the event?

What is #BlackHoleWeek?

QUICK LINKS TO VIDEO AND AUDIO

Click for downloadable AUDIO SOUNDBITE with NASA Scientist Knicole Colon.

Click for downloadable soundbites with NASA Scientist Knicole Colon

Click for downloadable soundbites with NASA Scientist Brad Cenko

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Observatories Collaborate to Catch Star-Gobbling Black Hole
NASA’s TESS Sees Its First Star-destroying Black Hole
Rare Black Hole Event Sheds Light on a Cosmic Mystery

For the first time, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) watched a black hole shred apart and devour a distant star from the moment the violent event began. This phenomenon only happens about once every 10,000 to 100,000 years in a galaxy the size of our own Milky Way!

So what is a black hole and how hard is it to watch one destroy a star? Chat with scientists on Friday, Sept. 27, from 6:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. EDT to find out how they work together to spot these rare cosmic events and what we’re learning about them. Skype interviews are also available. HERE’s a link to the FEATURE STORY. And HERE for a version of it in Spanish.

Scientists know black holes are integral to the life cycle of galaxies, but they’re incredibly difficult to study. Thanks to identification and coordination by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae [ASAS-SN, pronounced like “assassin”] and observations by TESS and other missions, including NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, astrophysicists are a step closer to understanding some of the most mysterious objects in the universe.

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Media contacts for partner institutions:
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For more information check out @NASAUniverse and #BlackHoleWeek

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Filaments containing much of the star's mass fall toward the black hole. Eventually these gaseous filaments merge into a smooth, hot disk glowing brightly in X-rays. As the disk forms, its central region heats up tremendously, which drives a flow of material, called a wind, away from the disk. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI LabWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.For complete transcript, click here.", "width": 1920, "height": 1080, "pixels": 2073600 } }, { "id": 10867, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10867/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Swift HD Beauty Shot", "description": "Animation of the Swift spacecraft. || ", "release_date": "2011-11-09T12:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:53:29.095223-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 481368, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010800/a010867/swif0266_print.jpg", "filename": "swif0266_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Beauty pass animation showing the spacecraft moving into sunlight and past the Earth to end facing out into space.", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } }, { "id": 10807, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10807/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "NASA's Swift Satellite Spots Black Hole Devouring A Star", "description": "In late March 2011, NASA's Swift satellite alerted astronomers to intense and unusual high-energy flares from a new source in the constellation Draco. They soon realized that the source, which is now known as Swift J1644+57, was the result of a truly extraordinary event — the awakening of a distant galaxy's dormant black hole as it shredded and consumed a star. The galaxy is so far away that the radiation from the blast has traveled 3.9 billion years before reaching Earth. Most galaxies, including our own, possess a central supersized black hole weighing millions of times the sun's mass. According to the new studies, the black hole in the galaxy hosting Swift J1644+57 may be twice the mass of the four-million-solar-mass black hole lurking at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. As a star falls toward a black hole, it is ripped apart by intense tides. The gas is corralled into a disk that swirls around the black hole and becomes rapidly heated to temperatures of millions of degrees. The innermost gas in the disk spirals toward the black hole, where rapid motion and magnetism creates dual, oppositely directed \"funnels\" through which some particles may escape. Particle jets driving matter at velocities greater than 80-90 percent the speed of light form along the black hole's spin axis. In the case of Swift J1644+57, one of these jets happened to point straight at Earth.Theoretical studies of tidally disrupted stars suggested that they would appear as flares at optical and ultraviolet energies. The brightness and energy of a black hole's jet is greatly enhanced when viewed head-on. The phenomenon, called relativistic beaming, explains why Swift J1644+57 was seen at X-ray energies and appeared so strikingly luminous. When first detected on March 28, the flares were initially assumed to signal a gamma-ray burst, one of the nearly daily short blasts of high-energy radiation often associated with the death of a massive star and the birth of a black hole in the distant universe. But as the emission continued to brighten and flare, astronomers realized that the most plausible explanation was the tidal disruption of a sun-like star seen as beamed emission. || ", "release_date": "2011-08-24T13:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:53:40.776982-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 484419, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010800/a010807/BlackHoleAnimation_00730.jpg", "filename": "BlackHoleAnimation_00730.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "On March 28, 2011, NASA's Swift detected intense X-ray flares thought to be caused by a black hole devouring a star. In one model, illustrated here, a sun-like star on an eccentric orbit plunges too close to its galaxy's central black hole. 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However, if you're absolutely convinced that a black hole is your ideal vacation spot, watch this video before you blast off to learn more about them and (more importantly) how to stay safe.You can also download a handy safety brochure, watch short clips to learn different things about black holes, and even get some short glimpses into the lives of black holes and the explorers that want to visit them. || ", "release_date": "2019-09-23T10:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:45:38.256787-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 392476, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a013300/a013322/black_hole_week_01_what_is_a_black_hole_thumb_print.jpg", "filename": "black_hole_week_01_what_is_a_black_hole_thumb_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Black Hole 101: What Is a Black Hole?Want to know more about black holes, but don't have a lot of time? 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