* Astronomy

According to two astrophysicists of the Observatory of Paris, the fate of stars which venture too  close to a galactic massive black hole could prove even more violent than previously  believed. Not only   are the stars are crushed into a  "pancake" shape by the enormous gravity of the black hole, but the process can also start a thermonuclear explosion which internally disintegrates them. Moreover, the shock waves generated in the stellar pancake  intensifies the stars central temperature,  and likely generates  new types of  X or gamma rays.

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