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Supernova Was Actually Black Hole Ripping Apart a Star

Sunday, December 18, 2016 - 19:31 in Astronomy & Space

Researchers now think the 'brightest supernova ever' may actually have been the death throes of a star ripped apart by a supermassive black hole up to billions of times the mass of the sun.

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