“Star Wanders Too Close to a Black Hole” was uploaded to Flickr

This artist's rendering shows the tidal disruption event named ASASSN-14li, where a star wandering too close to a 3-million-solar-mass black hole was torn apart. The debris gathered into an accretion disk around the black hole. via NASA ift.tt/2hS1Q5y
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Star Wanders Too Close to a Black Hole was taken on November 24, 2017 at 03:30AM