Black holes are formed from a massive star that collapses in itself where they transform into colossal cosmic bodies with a voracious appetite for destruction, sucking in particles like a vacuum including, space objects, matter, radiation energy and even light and sound. They are notorious for breaking the usual laws of physics in the universe and bending or even distorting space and time. 

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For the first time ever, scientists have observed a black hole swallowing a star and then ejecting a powerful flare at almost the speed of light, which is an extremely rare cosmic event, as a star collides into the inescapable gravitational forces of a black hole.

According to  Sjoert van Velzen from the Johns Hopkins University, this is the first time that we have seen a stellar destruction that followed by a jet or conical outflow of energy, in a span of several months.

Prior theories are suggesting how a black hole is a region of spacetime that is so dense that its gravitational forces can devour anything from light to radiation. When this happens, a plasma jet escapes, made from magnetic field particles that are emanating from the event horizon of the black hole itself.

This supermassive black hole however, is located some 300 million light years away, and was first detected by the Ohio State University last December. When astronomers ruled out that this intense light energy was from a pre-existing accretion disk, which is caused when a black hole is consuming matter from deep space, researchers now confirm that this sudden blast of light from this spacetime region is coming from a newly trapped star inside a black hole monster.

Van Velzen says that this destruction of a star by this behemoth black hole is also beautiful and complex, and even far from being understood right now, but based on these observations, this stream of stellar debris can apparently form a jet rapidly, which can be important input to answer the mystery of black holes.

This new study is published in the journal, Science. 

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