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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
         fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation   
                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                    2024 May 7   
      A swirling blue disk is illustrated with a deep colorful indentation in   
      the middle. A light colored jet shoots out of this middle, from a small   
      dot that is a black hole. Please see the explanation for more detailed   
                                   information.   
      
                           Black Hole Accreting with Jet   
        Illustration Credit: NASA, Swift, Aurore Simonnet (Sonoma State U.)   
      
      Explanation: What happens when a black hole devours a star? Many   
      details remain unknown, but observations are providing new clues. In   
      2014, a powerful explosion was recorded by the ground-based robotic   
      telescopes of the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (Project   
      ASAS-SN), with followed-up observations by instruments including NASA's   
      Earth-orbiting Swift satellite. Computer modeling of these emissions   
      fit a star being ripped apart by a distant supermassive black hole. The   
      results of such a collision are portrayed in the featured artistic   
      illustration. The black hole itself is a depicted as a tiny black dot   
      in the center. As matter falls toward the hole, it collides with other   
      matter and heats up. Surrounding the black hole is an accretion disk of   
      hot matter that used to be the star, with a jet emanating from the   
      black hole's spin axis.   
      
               Fall towards eternity: It's Black Hole Week at NASA!   
                       Tomorrow's picture: space, distorted   
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