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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
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
Usage terms	http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
Date and time of data generation	18 February 2004
Orientation	Normal
Horizontal resolution	72 dpi
Vertical resolution	72 dpi
Software used	Adobe Photoshop 7.0
File change date and time	16:18, 11 February 2004
Exif version	2.21
Color space	sRGB
Unique ID of original document	adobe:docid:photoshop:d093a980-5e3e-11d8-8d61-fdeb73566674
Date metadata was last modified	10:25, 21 March 2012
Keywords	RX J1242-11
Contact information	cxcpub@cfa.harvard.edu http://chandra.harvard.edu 60 Garden St. Cambridge, MA, 02138 USA 617.496.7941
IIM version	4

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