AFTERMATH: The illustration shows a disk of gas, fed by the destroyed star, being heated so that it glows in X-rays before being swallowed by the black hole. Also shown is the XMM-Newton spectrum, or X-ray energy signature, of galaxy RX J1242-11.

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