Star in Distant Galaxy Spirals

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Doomed star circling supermassive black hole could be ripped apart in less than 6 years

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A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of hot gas surrounding a black hole and releasing powerful bursts of X-rays in the process.

New findings show that Ansky flares in X-ray roughly every four-and-a-half days.

The star's orbital energy provides enough juice to heat the gas in the disk and then expel a quantity of material equivalent to Jupiter 's mass.

NICER and XMM-Newton will continue monitoring Ansky , which should enable a more precise prediction of when the star will run out of orbital energy and be destroyed.

When that happens, it will release a torrential outpouring of energy and astronomers will be able to witness a star being ripped apart in real time.

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