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超大黑洞引力无穷 　　Two space observatories have provided the first strong evidence of a supermassive black hole stretching, tearing apart and partially gobbling up a star flung into reach of its enormous gravity, astronomers said. 　　天文学家说两个太空了望台首次提供有力的证据，证明了超级巨大黑洞的存在，恒星闯入黑洞强大的引力场里就被它拉伸、撕裂甚至部分吞噬。 　　The event had long been predicted by theory but never confirmed. 　　很久以前就有理论推测会发生这种情况，但是从未得到过证实。 　　A powerful X-ray blast drew the attention of astronomers to the event, located near the center of a galaxy about 700 million light-years from Earth. The international team of astronomers believe gases from the star, heated to multimillion-degree temperatures as they fell toward the black hole near the heart of galaxy RX J1242-11, produced the blast. 　　强烈的X射线爆炸引起天文学家们的注意，它发生在到离地球大约7亿光年的星系中心附近。国际天文学家小组认为恒星释放的气体造成了这次爆炸，当气体靠近RX J1242-11星系中心附近的黑洞时，它们的温度升高到几百万度。 　　Astronomers said a star about the size of our sun neared the black hole after veering off course following a close encounter with another star. The tremendous gravity of the black hole, estimated to have a mass 100 million times that of our sun, then stretched the star to the point of breaking. 　　天文学家们说和一个与太阳差不多大的恒星与另一颗恒“亲密接触”后偏离轨道而靠近黑洞。黑洞巨大的引力随后把恒星不断拉伸直到破裂，黑洞的引力估计是太阳引力的1亿倍。 　　This is the ultimate David versus Goliath battle, but here David loses, said Gunther Hasinger, of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany. 　　“这是大卫和歌利亚的决战，但是这次大卫输了。”德国马普外层空间物理学院的贡特尔·哈辛格说。 　　The effect is the same that the tug of the moon has on the Earth’s oceans, but with much more violent results. The black hole consumed an estimated 1 percent of the doomed star, flinging the rest out into space. 　　黑洞对恒星的作用和月亮对地球上海洋的吸引作用一样，但是结果要猛烈的多。黑洞大约吞噬了这颗“倒霉的”恒星的百分之一，剩余的部分被抛向宇宙空间。 　　This unlucky star just wandered into the wrong neighborhood, said Stefanie Komossa, also of the Max Planck Institute. 　　马普学院的同仁斯特凡尼·科莫萨说：“这颗不幸的恒星只是‘闲逛’时不小心走错了路。” 　　Astronomers used NASA’s Chandra and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatories to captu