“Black hole destroys a star,” the video comes from 375 million light-years away

For the first time, in 2019, a black hole was observed tearing a star apart from beginning to end. Details and exciting video

For the first time, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has witnessed a black hole tearing apart a star from beginning to end, a cataclysmic phenomenon called a “tidal disruption event.” the Giant black hole That generated the event has an estimated mass equal to about 6 million times that of the Sun and is located in the center of a galaxy called 2 Max J07001137-6602251 It is located about 375 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation of the Flying Fish. Bang, call ASASSN-19BTIt was discovered on January 29, 2019 by the Instrumental All-Sky Survey of Supernovae (ASAS-SN), a global network of 20 telescopes. Shortly after the discovery, ASAS-SN requested further observations by NASA’s Swift satellite, ESA’s XMM-Newton and ground-based telescopes from 1 metre In the global network of the Las Cumbres Observatory. This video shows the ASASSN-19bt event captured by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and Swift, along with an animation showing how it happened. Since ASASSN-19bt fell into TESS’s continuous monitoring area, the satellite has observed the entire duration of the event.

source: NASA

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