A black hole has been spotted snacking on a star ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser
Astronomers have spotted what appears to be a star being torn up and devoured by a black hole just over 1 billion light years away. A star being ripped apart is a rare event – we’ve only seen it happen around 20 times – but it might be happening in a distant galaxy right now, as we watch.
In the centre of every large galaxy lies a supermassive black hole with a mass up to billions of times larger than that of the sun. If a…
