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Monster black hole is a 'cosmic Michael Myers' killing a star and brutally attacking another

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NASA 's Chandra space telescope saw a cosmic serial killer ripping apart a star and then targeting its next stellar victim.

The black hole in the center of AT2019qiz is hurling the remains of the star, which it previously destroyed, at another star or possibly a smaller stellar-mass black hole.

This stellar horror movie was first observed by the Zwicky Transient Facility , which saw the violent death of a star.

We now realize we need to wait a few years for the eruptions to 'turn on' after a star has been torn apart.

It takes some time for the disk to spread out far enough to encounter another star.

Rob Lea is a science journalist in the U.K. whose articles have been published in physics and astronomy.

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