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[bebe777]

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@GingerPeach wrote:

Astronomers have discovered evidence of a "supermassive" black hole shredding a star that got too close.  The "shredding" took about four months:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/galex/galex20120502.html

CNN has a more interesting simulation:

http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2015/10/22/black-hole-destroys-star-orig-zc-vstan.cnn-nasa

The black hole's mass is estimated to be that of several million suns.  That is said to be similar to the size of our Milky Way's black hole.

The star was in a galaxy 2.7 billion light-years away.

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@HonnyBrown, I saw this post and immediately thought about you. lol, did you have a birds eye view of the final flickerings of this star? 

-- bebe