NASA Gets Unusually Close Glimpse of Black Hole Snacking on Star
December 21, 2022
Multiple NASA telescopes recently observed a massive black hole tearing apart an unlucky star that wandered too close. Located about 250 million light-years from Earth in the center of another galaxy, it was the fifth-closest example of a black hole destroying a star ever observed.
Once the star had been thoroughly ruptured by the black hole’s gravity, astronomers saw a dramatic rise in…