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Blazing like 10 billion suns: NASA’s Swift sees a wandering black hole devouring a star
ScienceDailyTuesday, July 28, 2026 at 5:54 AM
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NASA’s Swift Observatory observed a supermassive black hole ripping apart a star more than 30,000 light-years from the center of a distant galaxy.
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- Scientific signal separates durable discovery from noise — and often foreshadows policy and product. NASA’s Swift Observatory observed a supermassive black hole ripping apart a star more than 30,000 light-years from the center of a distant galaxy.
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NASA’s Swift Observatory observed a supermassive black hole ripping apart a star more than 30,000 light-years from the center of a distant galaxy.
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