Black Hole Eats Star in Explosive New Visuals, NASA Shares Theories

Black hole eats star in explosive new visuals, NASA shares theories

NASA has created an animation to show what likely happened on July 2nd after a black hole appeared to shred a star. For months, space scientists scratched their heads and crunched the data. Then on Monday, December 8th, NASA reported it was actually a new kind of stellar explosion. They named it GRB 250702B. Astronomers...

Black Hole Eats Star: NASA Missions Discover Record-Setting Blast

Astronomers have been poring over a flood of data from NASA satellites and other facilities as they try to work out what was responsible for an extraordinary cosmic outburst discovered on July 2. The event was a GRB (gamma-ray burst), the most powerful class of cosmic explosions. But while most…

Black Hole Eats Star: Merger Animation

Black Hole Eats Star: Merger Animation | NASA ScienceAstronomers have been poring over a flood of data from NASA satellites and other facilities as they try to work out what was responsible for an extraordinary cosmic outburst discovered on July 2, 2025. The event was a gamma-ray burst (GRB), the most powerful class of cosmic explosions. However, while most GRBs last only a minute, this one continued for days. Named GRB 250702B, the burst's reco…