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My name is Nicole Colon and I work at NASA's Goddard space flight center. I also work here on the TESS mission which is

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the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.

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And it's looking for new planets all around our galaxy.

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In this latest discovery, astronomers captured the most detailed look yet at one of these supermassive black holes that's

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actually tearing a star apart.

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This detection of a black hole tearing a star part is really exciting because

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we specifically found for the first time a detection of the very beginning of the event so we can actually witness this

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with our telescopes and really understand the physics behind what happens when a star crashes into and gets ripped apart

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by a black hole.

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and this helps us understand the entire life cycle of

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stars and black holes and everything in the galaxy and the universe.