Astronomers see ANOTHER star ripped apart by a black hole!

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
May 2, 2012 11:03 PMNov 19, 2019 9:29 PM

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Last year, astronomers saw the violent death throes of a star as it was literally torn apart by a black hole (see here, and links within). And now, they've seen it again: observations across the electromagnetic spectrum caught another star that wandered too close to a supermassive black hole, and suffered the ultimate fate.

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