With Halloween approaching, it's the perfect time for a horror film and NASA's Chandra space telescope has spotted a doozy. The X-ray telescope saw a cosmic serial killer remorselessly ripping apart a star and then targeting its next stellar victim.
Like a cosmic Michael Myers, the unstoppable killer of the Halloween horror franchise, the supermassive black hole in a galaxy 210 million light-years from Earth specializes in gory demises. The black hole in the center of AT2019qiz is hurling the remains of the star, which it previously destroyed, at another star or possibly a smaller stellar-mass black hole orbiting it.
