NASA's TESS probe spots black hole tearing apart a star
"TESS data let us see exactly when this destructive event, named ASASSN-19bt, started to get brighter, which we`ve never been able to do before," Thomas Holoien from the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, said in a statement.
NASA spacecraft designed to discover alien planets watched a black hole tearing apart a star in a cataclysmic phenomenon called a tidal disruption event, Photo: Reuters