"Record-breaking black holes shred stars in terrifying spaghettification events"

Astronomers have discovered the closest tidal disruption event (TDE) to Earth, where a star is pulled apart by the massive gravitational pull of a black hole. The TDE was spotted in the galaxy NGC 7392, which is roughly 137 million light-years from Earth. The event was detected in infrared, a different wavelength than most conventional TDE detections, which usually come in X-rays, ultraviolet, and optical light. This finding suggests that astronomers should be searching for TDEs in infrared light, too.