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Astronomers See First Hint of the Silhouette of a Spaghettified Star
April 26th 2021, 3:52 pm
Stars living in the inner region of their galaxy are in danger of getting torn into slim filaments by the supermassive black hole that lurks in the center of most galaxies
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For decades astronomers have been spotting bursts of electromagnetic radiation coming from black holes.
They assumed those are the result of stars being torn apart, but they have never seen the silhouette of the actual material ligaments.
Now a group of astronomers, including lead author Giacomo Cannizzaro and Peter Jonker from SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research/Radboud University, has for the first time observed spectral absorption lines caused by strands of a spaghettified star.
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At the 2021 Sundance Film Festival today, the beneficiaries of $70,000 in grants from Sundance Institute and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation were named.
Doron Weber, Vice President and Program Director at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, presented the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize to Son of Monarchs and announced the new winners: Tania Taiwo for Pharmacopeia (Sundance Institute | Sloan Commissioning Grant); Alyssa Loh for Chariot (Sundance Institute | Sloan Development Fellowship); and Jennifer Lee and Graham Sack for The Harvard Computers (Sundance Institute | Sloan Episodic Fellowship). Alexis Gambis s Son of Monarchs will receive a $20,000 check as part of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize, as previously announced.