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Thursday, October 15, 2020

Scientists finally observe the actual "spaghettification" of a star



Astronomers have captured the last moments of a star just before it was ripped apart by a black hole. The violent occurrence—called a tidal disruption event—created a blast of light seen just 215 million light years from Earth, the closest such flare recorded to date.

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