Black Hole, Charles Burns

She’s a lot like you, Charles Burns

Black Hole, first published in 1995 by Charles Burns. Cover of the Fourth issue. 

We just got an unprecedented look at a black hole ripping apart a star

For the first time ever, astronomers got a close-up peek at a black hole ripping apart a star, a rare event that results in some of the star’s material getting ejected out into space. To research this phenomenon, astronomers used data from a tidal disruption that happened 3.9 billion years ago. Studying tidal disruptions like this one is revealing new information about how black holes behave.

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!!!!!WHAT!!!! THE FUCK!!!! WHAT THE FUCK!!! THIS IS SO COOL!!!!

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Is no one going to mention how that black hole is eaTING A DRAGON?

A Black Hole is an extraordinarily massive, improbably dense knot of spacetime that makes a living swallowing or slinging away any morsel of energy that strays too close to its dark, twisted core. Anyone fortunate (or unfortunate) enough to directly observe one of these beasts in the wild would immediately notice the way its colossal gravitational field warps all of the light from the stars and galaxies behind it, a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing.

Thanks to the power of supercomputers, a curious observer no longer has to venture into outer space to see such a sight. A team of astronomers has released their first simulated images of the lensing effects of not just one, but two black holes, trapped in orbit by each other’s gravity and ultimately doomed to merge as one.

http://www.universetoday.com/116500/new-simulation-offers-stunning-images-of-black-hole-merger/?