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Black Hole Eats Star

Very well made, and frightening to contemplate:

I note that the star keeps glowing at about the same level of luminosity throughout. At some point, the mass of the star would be less than the threshold required for fusion -- but I'm not sure at what point the fusion process would begin to shut down. Maybe the black hole would swallow the entire star before it had the chance to burn out.

Also, I wonder what the time scale is. Decades? Centuries?

UPDATE: The first time I watched this, I didn't have audio. The narrators says the process takes "millions of years."

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