/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.4962554]

What is this called and why does it happen?

[Anonymous No.4962558]

>>4962554
I am not sure what it is called.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/06/black-holes-stars-supermassive_n_1408134.html
It is a black hole consuming a nearby star I think.
The very large gravity of the black hole draws matter into it.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/04/05/astronomers-may-have-witnessed-a-star-torn
-apart-by-a-black-hole/

[Anonymous No.4962559]

>>4962558
Do you happen to know anything about the "scaring" on the sun? I think people were saying its going to cause a massive solar flare. I'd like to learn more about it, but I cant fined much.

[Anonymous No.4962567]

>>4962559
*Scarring.
And no, I have not heard of this.
The Sun is like a torrent, it is similar to liquid in its properties, constantly moving and swirling. It is not solid, and it can not scar.

Solar flares occasionally happen, but they are not particularly dangerous from our position here on Earth.
I suggest you read more about them.

Wikipedia is a good start.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_flare

[Anonymous No.4962580]

It's called "accretion."

[Anonymous No.4962582]

>>4962567
Well I have some basic knowledge of the sun, I know its not a solid mass, but as it was described to me, and the picture of it that i saw, it was a rather large black squiggly line, stretching about 1/9th of the visible sun, and it was said to be growing by the day

[Anonymous No.4962583]

>>4962559
Nothing is going to happen. Don't listen to the conspiracy fags.

[Anonymous No.4962592]

>>4962583
I didn't think anything would happen, but it seemed a little large for it to have popped up in a relatively small amount of time

[Anonymous No.4962601]

it happens

[Anonymous No.4962609]

>>4962592
Perhaps a sunspot, or something similar?
http://www.ehow.com/about_5095896_sun-surface-features.html

[Anonymous No.4962618]

>>4962609
It looked like >>4962601
I really wish I had saved the article that I saw.

[Anonymous No.4962622]

It's called marriage.

[Anonymous No.4962631]

>>4962622
I lol'd

[Anonymous No.4962646]

>>4962601
the "scarring" is cooler areas on the surface caused by the erratic magnetic field of the sun

[Anonymous No.4962656]

The think in OP's pic is called a X-binary.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_binary