June 16, 2011 - AstronomyNow
The moment a star strayed too close to a hungry black hole was captured by the Swift satellite, which was blasted in the high energy death cry of the star as it was ripped apart.
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The gamma-ray flare likely began a few days before the Swift satellite picked it up, and may take up to a year to fade away. Once Swift had made the detection, further observations were made with the Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Gemini and Keck telescopes in Hawaii, and the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope.