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What happens when a black hole swallows a star?

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AS the star gets sucked up into the black hole, a brilliant flare of light that echoes through space would burp back up hundreds of light-years.

This is known as tidal disruption flares. When the star is ripped apart by the gravitational forces of the black hole, some part of the star remains falls into the black hole, while the rest is ejected at high speeds. – BY SCIENCE BRIDGE ACADEMY

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