Now, though, NASA has actually watched a black hole eat a star. To get a good view of the event, NASA used multiple of its space telescopes to observe the black hole as it ate the star.

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Astronomers theorize that a low-mass white dwarf, a compact core of a dead star about as large as Earth, could be the culprit. A cosmic mystery surrounding a black hole some 270 million light ...

This star was in the midst of being torn apart by a black hole. The star itself had no hope of escaping the black hole’s grasp once it drifted into its event horizon — the area around a black ...

Astronomers have detected a binary star system orbiting Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole. Just on the outskirts of a supermassive black hole roughly 4 million times ...