A black hole devouring a giant star gives clues to a cosmic mystery

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A ****** ***** devouring a giant star gives clues to a cosmic mystery

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Illustration of a tidal disruption event

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Astronomers have caught a supermassive ****** ***** eating a giant star in the biggest and brightest example of this powerful event ever seen. It could be the missing link that helps us understand mysteriously bright cosmic objects in the centres of some active galaxies.

When a ****** ***** gobbles up a star, it doesn’t happen in one titanic gulp – instead, the star is torn apart in a violent process called a tidal disruption event (TDE). These are some of the brightest events in the sky.

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