February 18, 2004
"Thanks to two orbiting X-ray observatories, astronomers have the first strong evidence of a supermassive black hole ripping apart a star and consuming a portion of it. The event, captured by NASA's Chandra and ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray Observatories, had long been predicted by theory, but never confirmed ... until now."
See http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/18feb_mayhem.htm?list897130 for the full story.
Cheers,
-Don G.
Black Hole Mayhem
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