A star getting torn apart by a black hole sounds like the stuff of science fiction, and while it’s rare, happening just once every 10,000 to 100,000 years in a galaxy the size of our Milky Way, it does occur. These cataclysms are called tidal disruption events. #BlackHoleWeek Recently we’ve been able to capture tidal disruption events thanks to ground-based telescopes that monitor the sky for transient outbursts. They alert other ground- and space-based telescopes, like our Swift and NuSTAR Obse