It also allowed the researchers to draw some conclusions about the black hole and ... "A large fraction of the star gets ejected away," Gezari says. "It's a very messy process." ...

During the simulations, the intermediate-mass black hole snagged the star in its orbit, and each time the star made another lap, the black hole took another bite out of it. When only the dense ...

"What happens when you throw a star at a black hole ... that the answer to our opening question is "things get messy." "Black holes are not able to eat all that much," Price told Space.com.

Black holes are extraterrestrial regions where gravitational pull has drawn ... up the star occasionally gets flung out back into space, which astronomers liken to black holes being messy eaters ...

Much like prey getting caught in a spider's web, the amuse-bouche to what becomes a lengthy and violent meal is the star first getting drawn into a black hole's orbit. Stellar: About three to 10 ...