According to the physicists, when a large black hole captures a smaller object like a medium-sized star the process causes gravitational radiation to be emitted in a preferential direction.

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Towards the end of this process, an enormous burst of gravitational waves.

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Or the Gemini stream could be a remnant of another as yet undetected dwarf galaxy still in the process of being torn asunder by gravitational tidal interactions within our own Milky Way.

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The process naturally occurs in the core of the Sun where huge gravitational pressure allows this to happen at temperatures of around 10 million Celsius.

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