TESS Catches its First Star-destroying Black Hole (VIDEO)
Caption
When a star strays too close to a black hole, intense tides break it apart into a stream of gas. The tail of the stream escapes the system, while the rest of it swings back around, surrounding the black hole with a disk of debris. This video includes images of a tidal disruption event called ASASSN-19bt taken by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and Swift missions, as well as an animation showing how the event unfolded. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85tdoDt1Qh0 Download in HD: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13237
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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