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August 26, 2011

Massive Black Hole Devours Giant Star

Andrew Moran, Digital Journal


NASA

Washington - Two studies are researching a supermassive black hole that devoured a star that ventured too close to the monster. The star was one million times the mass of our sun and light from the ordeal took 3.9 billion years to reach Earth.

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