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Astronomers See Another Star Torn Apart By a Black Hole
The Bad Astronomer writes "A star in a galaxy 2.7 billion light years away wandered too close to a supermassive black hole and suffered the ultimate fate: it was literally torn apart by the black hole's gravity. The event was seen as a flash of ultraviolet light flaring 350 times brighter than the galaxy itself, slowly fading over time. Astronomers were able to determine that some of the star's material was eaten by the black hole, and some flung off into space. Although rare, this is the second time such a thing has been seen; the other was just last year."
Yeah, finally, after 14 billion years of existence, the universe went from this event never happening to happening all the time in under a year. And now the earth's existence will end because, you know, since this happens all the time now and since we're right next to the black hole in the center of our galaxy, a star being torn apart is sufficiently close to destroy all life.
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