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Our online science advent calendar is back! Each day until December 24, we will open a door of our advent calender for you to dazzle you with images from science and provide the scientific background to the image.

Supercomputer simulations show how stars skirt virtual black hole. Watch as eight stars approach a black hole 1 million times the mass of the Sun: all are stretched and deformed by the black hole’s gravity, some are completely pulled apart. These simulations, led by Taeho Ryu, a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, are the first to combine the physical effects of Einstein’s general theory of relativity with realistic stellar density models. 

By Prof. Victoria Kaspi, McGill University in Montréal, Canada