"Closest-Ever Black Hole Devours Star in Terrifying Display"

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Astronomers have captured the closest-ever sighting of a black hole devouring a star, located in a galaxy named NGC 7392, just 137 million light-years away. The event, named WTP14adbjsh, was seen as a bright infrared flare, rather than optical or X-radiation. The discovery suggests that there could be a large population of such tidal disruption events (TDEs) out there that we're missing, simply because we're not looking in the right part of the electromagnetic spectrum. The findings have been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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