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NASA Gets an Unusually Close Glimpse of a Black Hole Snacking on a Star

Recent observations of a black hole devouring a wandering star may help scientists understand more complex black hole-feeding behaviors. 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 ...

Troy Oakes

A disk of hot gas swirls around a black hole.