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STAR SOS DETECTED FROM SPACE
Astronomers pick up a mayday call from a star being ripped apart by a black hole 3.8 billion light-years from Earth."
"NASA launched the Swift gamma-ray telescope thinking it would give scientists a way to monitor the births of black holes. Now, a pair of new studies suggests it can watch them feed as well.
The evidence comes from an event called Sw1644+57, a bright flash of gamma rays detected by the Swift telescope on March 28 that came from the center of a small galaxy in the Draco constellation, located about 3.8 billion light-years from Earth.
Gamma ray bursts aren't all that uncommon. Swift has found more than 500 of them since it began tracking six years ago. These flashes are extremely powerful, but very short. They typically pack as much punch as all the energy put out by the sun over its entire lifetime into a few seconds.
Not so with Sw1644+57. An hour after it was found, it turned up again."
http://news.discovery.com/space/blac...ft-110616.html
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Kan det varit en intelligent civilisation som gick under? Svarta hål verkar inte vara att leka med..