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Scientists predict that the white dwarf will slowly lose its mass as it orbits the black hole, until it shrinks by a trillion years to the size of Jupiter.
In the cosmic neighborhood, in a galaxy some 250 million light years from Earth, a star managed to survive a very close encounter with a black hole, although it will continue to orbit without a chance of escape, scientists revealed after analyzing the Observatory data. X-ray Chandra from NASA and XMM-Newton from ESA.
The black hole in question, located in a galaxy called GSN 069, has a mass 400,000 times greater than that of the Sun, Which makes it relatively small by the standards of supermassive black holes.
After being captured by the gravity of the black hole, the star, a red giant, stripped of its outer layers of hydrogen, leaving only its core, like a white dwarf.