Webb Telescope Tracks Black Holes Tearing Nearby Stars to Pieces

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Usually, when a star approaches too close to a black hole, it is destroyed, which translates from our point of view into a well-recognized signature, but here, not everything happened as expected. As if the star had finally come out.

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Supermassive black holes lurk in the centers of galaxies – cosmic monsters with the mass of millions to billions of Suns. Sometimes they are quiet and almost unnoticeable, other times they gobble up the surrounding cosmic gas and dust, powering the “galactic engine.” Sometimes they even devour an entire star that gets too close...