The first time a black hole was discovered, it swallowed a star

An ultra-large cosmic black hole has "clean" a star for 10 years when it passes by - this is the largest "meal" of a known black hole.

The giant black hole is named XJ1500 + 0154 , located in a small galaxy of about 1.8 billion light-years from our galaxy, discovered by three X-ray telescopes.

Black hole swallowed up a star.

This black hole set a record of "glutton" when swallowing a star. The details of this record-breaking superh black research process have just been published in the "Nature Astronomy" astronomical magazine .

Dacheng Lin, the leader of the research team, said the black hole victim was a star that moved too close to the "giant mouth" and was broken into ash by the tremendous gravity of the black hole. At the same time, the rest of this star also raises heat, emits X-ray sparks and shines brightly.

The phenomenon of a star being shredded by a black hole and swallowed is called a "tidal interruption". Over a period of 10 years, the black hole has absorbed all the debris, the victim's ash into the bottomless abdomen.

"We have witnessed a long and spectacular end of a star. Tens of tidal interruptions have been discovered since the 1990s, but there have never been any bright and long lasting cases. so, "affirmed Lin.