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‘We’ve Never Seen Anything Like This Before:’ Black Hole Spews Out Material Years After Shredding Star

  • 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.

    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

    Low Resolution Image