00:03black holes devour anything and everything that crosses over their event horizons even light
00:09however what happens when only part of something crosses over well that's exactly what's happening
00:13to a star 860 million light years away called AT2018 FYK and astronomers are currently observing
00:21it with the Chandra x-ray telescope specifically they have detected a tidal disruption event or
00:26tde caused when a star gets trapped and eaten by a black hole however this star didn't get
00:31immediately swallowed up with experts noticing yet another x-ray spike from the same spot two years
00:36later they now say that's because some of the star is being eaten yet again after making a massive
00:41elliptical arc around the supermassive black hole meaning it will likely not be the last one we see
00:46as the star gets devoured bit by bit every few years astronomers should be able to point the
00:51Chandra x-ray telescope in its direction and captured data from the black hole snack time
00:56researchers have already noticed a decrease in luminosity of the tde meaning the star has lost
01:01significant mass meanwhile AT2018 FYK's binary star pair was likely slingshotted away from the black
01:08hole with experts believing it may have left its galaxy completely
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