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Astronomers were able to use Hubble's powerful ultraviolet sensitivity to witness a passing star get ripped apart by black hole AT2022dsb.

The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae checks the sky about once a week for "violent, variable, and transient events that are shaping our universe."  By monitoring tidal events, they were able to catch this early enough, and it happened close enough, that astronomers could run ultraviolet spectroscopy over a longer period of time than usual.

The data will provide forensic clues as to what happens to a star when it meets a black hole.

"This is an exciting place for scientists to be: right at the interface of the known and the unknown."
-Peter Maksym of the Center for Astrophysics




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