Black Hole Tears a Star Apart
Astronomers see telltale signs of star's gases being pulled away from it.
Black Hole Tears a Star Apart: Space Pictures From the Final Frontier
This computer-simulated image shows gas from a star falling into a black hole. Astronomers, reporting in the journal Nature, say they observed a flare in ultraviolet and optical light, telling them there was a black hole tearing a star apart.
(NASA/S. Gezari (Johns Hopkins)/A. Rest (Space Telescope Science Institute)/R. Chornock(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics))
