Thursday, 24. October 2002
Topic: - on October 24, 2002 at 9:47:06 PM CEST
Astronomer sees black hole eat star
It began like a routine measurement on a quasar, a somewhat boring look at the emissions from a distant, early galaxy -- but it turned out that the graduate student was actually watching a black hole swallow part of a star.
As he looked at the spectrum of light sent out by TEX 1726+344, the student at the University of Texas at Austin, Feng Ma, realized he was seeing something extraordinary.
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