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Astronomers have discovered firm evidence of a rare double cosmic cannibalism — a star consuming a compact object like a black hole or neutron star — for the first time.
As a result, the item devoured the star's core, causing it to explode and leave behind a black hole in its wake.
The Very Large Array (VLA), a radio telescope comprising of 27 large dishes in the New Mexican desert near Socorro, provided the first signs of the terrible event, as recounted in Science on September 3.
A blast of radio energy the size of the brightest exploding star — or supernova — as viewed from Earth erupted in a dwarf star–forming galaxy during the observatory's night sky surveys in 2017.