Supermassive Black Hole Devours Star In Event Called ASASSN-14li | Animation

Wednesday, October 21, 2015 - 14:30 in Astronomy & Space

A tidal disruption was detected using multiple orbiting observatories by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) in Nov. 2014. The event occurred in galaxy PGC 043234 about 290 million light years away from Earth.

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