Tag: ASAS-SN

An artist’s depiction of a star close to a rapidly spinning supermassive black hole. The gravitational pull of the black hole rips the star apart in what is known as a tidal disruption event. Astronomers at Ohio State, the Carnegie Observatories and NASA today announced the most detailed sighting yet of a tidal disruption event, using the ASAS-SN telescope system – managed by Ohio State – and cameras on NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Black Hole Shredding A Star Observed By Astronomers

MessageToEagle.com | September 27, 2019

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – For the first time, NASA’s planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) watched a black hole tear apart a star in a cataclysmic phenomenon called

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