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A Star’s Spin Could Solve a Longstanding Black Hole Mystery

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A Star’s Spin Could Solve a Longstanding Black Hole Mystery
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A star’s rotation may help solve a longstanding mystery involving repeated encounters between stars and supermassive black holes. At the center of most galaxies sits a supermassive black hole, an object millions to billions of times more massive than the Sun. Its gravity is powerful enough to tear apart a star that ventures too close, [...]

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