Swift J1644+57 black hole swallows a star

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this was watched by the swift satellite when a star is being swallowed by a black hole

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For the first time, a black hole has been caught in the act of tearing apart and swallowing a star that got too close.

Scientists, who until now had witnessed only the aftermath of such events, say the observation is shedding light on "relativistic jets," bursts of matter that shoot out at nearly the speed of light.

At the centers of virtually all large galaxies are supermassive black holes. These monsters, which are millions to billions of times the mass of the sun, can rip apart passers-by, gravitationally pulling at stars in gigantic versions of how our moon tugs on Earth's oceans to generate tides. [Photos of the star-eating black hole]

http://www.space.com/12719-black-hole-swallows-star-nasa-swift.html

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