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When a star ventures too close to a black hole, gravitational forces create intense tides that break the star apart into a stream of gas, resulting in a cataclysmic phenomenon known as a tidal disruption event. Credit: Chris Smith/USRA/GESTAR; NASA. Researchers have documented a fatal encounter between an unlucky star
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A glowing stream of material from a star, torn to shreds as it was being devoured by a supermassive black hole. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. While black holes and toddlers don’t seem to have much in common, they are remarkably similar in one aspect: Both are messy eaters, generating ample evidence that
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This illustration shows a massive star that is about to explode. Credit: Chuck Carter. Dead star plunges into star, star explodes. In 2017, a particularly luminous and unusual source of radio waves was discovered in data taken by the Very Large Array (VLA) Sky Survey, a project that scans the
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When a star ventures too close to a black hole, gravitational forces create intense tides that break the star apart into a stream of gas,
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A glowing stream of material from a star, torn to shreds as it was being devoured by a supermassive black hole. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. While black
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This illustration shows a massive star that is about to explode. Credit: Chuck Carter. Dead star plunges into star, star explodes. In 2017, a particularly
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