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English: Top: artist's conception of a supermassive black hole drawing material from a nearby star. Bottom: images believed to show a supermassive black hole devouring a star in galaxy RXJ 1242-11. Left: X-ray image, Right: optical image.
Français : En haut : Vue d’artiste d’un trou noir supermassif absorbant de la matière dans la galaxie RXJ 1242-11. En bas à gauche : Photo prise dans les rayons X avec le télescope Chandra. En bas à droite : photo optique prise par l’ESO.
Italiano: In alto: visione artistica di un buco nero supermassiccio che assorbe materia da una stella vicina. In basso: immagini che si pensa mostrino un buco nero supermassiccio che divora una stella nella galassia RXJ 1242-11. A sinistra: immagine in raggi X. A destra: immagine ottica. Sito web:

chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2004/rxj1242/

Русский: Сверху: сверхмассивная чёрная дыра, поглощающая звезду, в представлении художника. Снизу: изображения, предположительно показывающие сверхмассивную чёрную дыру в галактике RXJ 1242-11. Слева: в рентгеновском излучении. Справа: в оптическом диапазоне.
Slovenčina: Hore: umelcova predstava supermasívnej čiernej diery, ktorá si priťahuje hmotu z neďalekej hviezdy. Dole: obrázky, o ktorých sa predpokladá, že zobrazujú supermasívnu čiernu dieru, ktorá zhltáva hviezdu v galaxii RXJ 1242-11. Vľavo: röntgenová snímka. Vpravo: optická snímka. Stránka: chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2004/rxj1242/

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Image title	Observations with Chandra (lower left image) and other X-ray observatories confirmed that a powerful X-ray outburst had occurred in the center of RX J1242-11, which appears normal in a ground-based optical image (lower right, with the white circle defining the location of the Chandra image). This X-ray outburst, one of the most powerful ever detected in a galaxy, is evidence for the catastrophic destruction of a star that wandered too close to a supermassive black hole. The illustration (top) shows how, after a close encounter with another star, the doomed star (orange circle) takes a path toward the giant black hole where the black hole's enormous gravity stretches the star until it is torn apart. Only a few percent of the disrupted star's mass (indicated by the white stream) is swallowed by the black hole, while the rest is flung away into the surrounding galaxy.
Author	Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
Date and time of data generation	18 February 2004
Orientation	Normal
Horizontal resolution	72 dpi
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Software used	Adobe Photoshop 7.0
File change date and time	16:18, 11 February 2004
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Unique ID of original document	adobe:docid:photoshop:d093a980-5e3e-11d8-8d61-fdeb73566674
Date metadata was last modified	10:25, 21 March 2012
Source	Chandra X-ray Observatory
Headline	A star being torn apart by the tidal forces of a black hole.
Credit/Provider	Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss; X-ray: NASA/CXC/MPE/S.Komossa et al.; Optical: ESO/MPE/S.Komossa
Short title	Giant Black Hole Rips Star Apart
Keywords	RX J1242-11
Contact information	cxcpub@cfa.harvard.edu http://chandra.harvard.edu 60 Garden St. Cambridge, MA, 02138 USA 617.496.7941
Usage terms	http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
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