Black Hole Star Shredder (Animation) | DESY

Black Hole Star Shredder (Animation) | DESY

Multi-Messenger Observations Reveal Cosmic Particle Accelerator

When an unfortunate star in the constellation Delphinus came too close to the supermassive black hole at the center of its home galaxy, it was stretched more and more by the enormous tidal forces until it was finally disrupted. Half of the stellar debris was flung back into space, while the remaining part formed a rotating accretion disk where two strong outflows of matter shot up and down. The system acts as a powerful natural particle accelerator. Scientists caught a single neutrino hurled towards Earth by this system. 

Note: Multi-messenger astronomy is the coordinated observation and interpretation of multiple signals received from the same astronomical event.

DESY, short for Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (English: German Electron Synchrotron), is a national research center for fundamental science located in Hamburg and Zeuthen near Berlin in Germany. It operates particle accelerators used to investigate the structure, dynamics and function of matter, and conducts a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary scientific research in four main areas: particle and high energy physics; photon science; astroparticle physics; and the development, construction and operation of particle accelerators.

Motto: "The Decoding of Matter"

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Video Credit: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)

Duration: 52 seconds

Release Date: Feb. 22, 2021

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