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Space & Physics
Shredded Stars Offer New View of Supermassive Black Holes
New techniques reveal how supermassive black holes shred entire stars
S. Bradley Cenko is a research astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, where he serves as principal investigator for the Swift mission. He works with wide-area ground- and space-based surveys to study the time-variable universe Credit: Nick Higgins
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