It's not rare for scientists to find so-called tidal disruption events, which is the polite term for when a black hole tears a star limb from limb. But they say they were incredibly fortunate to have detected evidence of a star that survived its initial black hole encounter, an event that's much rarer – partly because the encounter has a short duration of only around 2,000 light-years, which is just a flicker of time in terms of the universe's inner workings. … [Read more...] about This Star Survived Being Swallowed by a Black Hole
