The Nation - News from Nov. 27, 1986
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Two astronomers reported discovering what may be the first evidence that an object--possibly part of a star--was sucked into a black hole. Bradley Peterson and Gary J. Ferland, associate professors of astronomy at Ohio State University, reported in the British science journal Nature that an object about the size of the Earth’s sun was torn apart by a huge black hole, which sucked in a small fraction of the object. A black hole is a star that has collapsed into a tremendously dense mass with gravity so strong that not even light can escape it.
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