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astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space

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Telescope have recorded a star's final

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moments in detail as it was ripped apart

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and eaten up by a black hole in a tidal

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disruption event

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the shredded star is nearly 300 million

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light years away but astronomers used

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Hubble's powerful ultraviolet

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sensitivity to analyze its light to

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gather forensic clues of the violent

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event

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Hubble data found a very bright hot

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donut-shaped area of gas the size of the

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solar system swirling around a black

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hole the swirling gas was once a star

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usually astronomers get just a few

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observations at the beginning of A

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disruption event when it's very bright

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but this energetic collision's proximity

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and brightness allowed Hubble to gather

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ultraviolet data over a longer than

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normal time period

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this is a rare opportunity for

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scientists to create models of what they

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think is going on and then compare those

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models with what Hubble sees

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it is an exciting place for scientists