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
the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.
And it's looking for new planets all around our galaxy.
In this latest discovery, astronomers captured the most detailed look yet at one of these supermassive black holes that's
actually tearing a star apart.
This detection of a black hole tearing a star part is really exciting because
we specifically found for the first time a detection of the very beginning of the event so we can actually witness this
with our telescopes and really understand the physics behind what happens when a star crashes into and gets ripped apart
by a black hole.
and this helps us understand the entire life cycle of
stars and black holes and everything in the galaxy and the universe.