Black Hole Shreds Star - Light Echoes Map The Gas Flow | Video

Wednesday, June 22, 2016 - 15:01 in Astronomy & Space

On March 28, 2011, NASA's Swift satellite detected X-rays produced by a black hole that devoured a star, roughly 3.9 billion years ago.

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