NASA/JPL-CaltechIllustration of a black hole stripping a star.We all know that black holes can devour stars. Rip them apart and consume their remnants. But that only happens if a star passes too close to a black hole. What if a star gets close enough to a star to experience strong tidal effects, but not close enough to be immediately devoured? This scenario is considered in a recent paper on the arXiv.1 The study considered a dying, 2 solar-mass star known as a subgiant. These stars are reach...
