The star thrashed about as he was caught in the rush of inspiraling gas. Choking plasma forced its w
The star thrashed about as he was caught in the rush of inspiraling gas. Choking plasma forced its way onto his surface, colliding in superheated shockwaves. For the first time, the star felt a burning sensation. It was a peculiar thing, to say the least, given he was himself a great source of heat. But the dense plasma smashing across his face heated up to temperatures orders of magnitude higher than his own, scorch-flashing the side of him that faced into the current. Swirling currents and winds whirled about within him, trying and failing to redistribute the heat that was basting him alive. …Through it all, the supermassive black hole patiently observed, feeling the star’s gravitational well alight on the outer reaches of his space-time, where the curvature was almost flat. Slowly the star was spiraling inward. Slowly. It would take it more than ten thousand orbits before it came within striking range.But that was enough to pique the black hole’s excitement, and let a little bit of electron-positron plasma drool out of its otherwise shadowy maw…(Inspired by this paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.03741) -- source link
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