The Hubble Space Telescope followed a stellar-black hole collision, discovered in March last year, for a year. Thus, every stage of the cosmic collision, which would be the subject of science fiction movies, could be observed.

As most of us know, black holes are such 'heavy' structures that even light cannot escape its gravitational pull. For this reason, we can only detect black holes, which we can call these 'ghosts' of space, by observing their effects on surrounding objects. The other day, NASA announced at a conference with the American Astronomical Society that the Hubble Space Telescope was detected 'swallowing' a star around a black hole.

According to the shared information and representative images, the star, which entered the orbit of the black hole, started to break down by the gravitational force of the black hole. The star, which had a tail behind it, disappeared completely as the amount of fragmentation increased and was replaced by a hot, cosmic nebula swirling around the black hole.

The stages of the black hole splitting the star are as follows:

• The star is getting too close to the black hole.
• Gases in the outer atmosphere of the star are attracted to the black hole's gravitational pull, forming a tail.
• The star is completely disintegrated by the gravitational force.
• The nebula remaining from the star forms a ring-shaped nebula around the black hole. This nebula eventually sinks completely into the black hole and emits an enormous amount of light and radiation into space.

The event in question took place about 300 million light-years from Earth. Naturally, the data obtained by Hubble was not observed much like black hole-star collisions in Hollywood productions.

 NASA shared a video about the discovery on the Goddard YouTube channel, but since the discovery was made by examining ultraviolet light, which the human eye cannot see, there are representative images of the event in the video.