AT2018hyz (IMAGE)

Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

AT2018hyz

Caption

Artist’s illustration of tidal disruption event AT2019dsg where a supermassive black hole spaghettifies and gobbles down a star. Some of the material is not consumed by the black hole and is flung back out into space.

Credit

DESY, Science Communication Lab

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