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Published on May 2, 2012
A supermassive black hole 2.7 billion light years away has shredded a star. Learn more http://goo.gl/ACww9
In this visualization, some of the murdered star's debris falls into the void, but some is spun up and shot out at high velocities. Credit: NASA, S. Gezari (The Johns Hopkins University), and J. Guillochon (University of California, Santa Cruz)