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NASA’s TESS probe spots black hole tearing apart a star

Washington, Sep 27 (IANS) In a rare sighting of a cosmic event, a NASA spacecraft designed to discover alien planets watched a black hole tearing apart a star in a cataclysmic phenomenon called a tidal disruption event.

NASA’s planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission detected the tidal disruption event. Follow-up observations by the US space agency’s Neil Gehrels Swift…