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Star moves too close to a black hole and gets broken apart into a stream of gas.
Telescopes have captured the rare light flash from a dying star as it was ripped apart by a supermassive black hole.
NASA's Tess Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite captures rare cataclysmic phenomenon called a tidal disruption event. Where a large star gets stretched and stretched by a black hole in space.This event happened only 215 million light-years from Earth.
The blast, named ASASSN-19bt, was found on Jan. 29. The supermassive black hole that generated ASASSN-19bt weighs around 6 million times the Sun’s mass. The Blackhole sits at the center of the 2MASX J07001137-6602251 galaxy.