While monitoring the sky with optical systems, we’ve found some really weird stuff. Back in 2018, the All Sky Automated Survey for Super Novae discovered a brightening galaxy. Follow -up observations in the X-Ray found the kinds of high energy light that signals a black hole is tearing apart and feeding on a star. When the light faded away, it was assumed the star was gone and the excitement was over, but… it returned about 1200 days later. This second flare wasn’t as impressive as the first, but it was enough to let researchers calculate the shredded stars orbit and predict when what ever...

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