Astronomers just watched a black hole shred a star

[Makuser]

Scientists used NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to capture the unfortunate sun getting torn apart in unprecedented detail after it passed too close to a supermassive black hole in a galaxy some 375 million light-years away.When a black hole destroys a star, scientists call it a Tidal Disruption Event, or TDE, and this was among the most detailed such events ever seen. Astronomers hope the find will offer new insights into the exotic processes involved. You can read the entire report, and see the artist's illustration here, at:
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/09/a ... red-a-star