'No one has ever seen anything like this before.'
Three years ago, in October 2018, astronomers observed a black hole consuming and ripping a star apart in a galaxy 665 million light years away from Earth.
"This caught us completely by surprise — no one has ever seen anything like this before," explained Yvette Cendes, a research associate at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian and lead author of the study. Cendes added that the behavior could be compared to someone "burping" after a meal.
“We applied for Director’s Discretionary Time on multiple telescopes, which is when you find something so unexpected, you can’t wait for the normal cycle of telescope proposals to observe it,” Cendes said. “All the applications were immediately accepted.
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