NASA captures amazing pics of Black Holes after Swallowing Stars

NASA has successfully captured amazing pictures of glowing stream of material from a star as it is being devoured by a supermassive black hole in a tidal disruption flare.The Black holes have been spotted swallowing stars. They have tremendous gravitational pull and acquire thermal energy, equal to the energy our sun would produce over ten million years.

"This is the first time we have clearly seen the infrared light echoes from multiple tidal disruption events," Sjoert van Velzen, a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University and lead author of the NASA study, said in a statement. 

The super massive black holes have turned into a rapacious beast. NASA scientists have documented the whole process of radiation expulsion for the first time ever. The credit for this achievement goes to NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer which provided deep insights in the tidal disruption flares.

"It's as though the black hole has cleaned its room by throwing flames," van Velzen said.

According to SpaceRef a black hole destroying a star, an event astronomers call “stellar tidal disruption,” releases an enormous amount of energy, brightening the surroundings in an event called a flare. In recent years, a few dozen such flares have been discovered, but they are not well understood.