NASA captures rare images of black hole devouring star

A distant star that was once about the size of our sun has been obliterated by a monstrous black hole — and astronomers have the whole thing on tape. For the first time, NASA’S Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has stumbled upon a cosmic cataclysm called a tidal disruption event, or TDE, which occurs when...

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