AT 2020neh HST (IMAGE)

University of California - Santa Cruz

AT 2020neh HST

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Astronomers discovered a star being ripped apart by a black hole in the galaxy SDSS J152120.07+140410.5, 850 million light years away. Researchers pointed NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to examine the aftermath, called AT 2020neh, which is shown in the center of the image. Hubble’s ultraviolet camera saw a ring of stars being formed around the nucleus of the galaxy where AT 2020neh is located.

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Credit: NASA, ESA, Ryan Foley/UC Santa Cruz

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