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Black Hole Shredding a Star
May 9, 2012 | NASA

Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close.


This computer-simulated image shows gas from a tidally shredded star falling into a black hole. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/JHU/UCSC


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