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Space can be fascinating because it’s so vast and we still have a lot of it that has yet to be discovered and fully understood. This is why we can totally understand the excitement behind a recent discovery in which for the first time ever, NASA has managed to capture a rare cosmic event with one of their newer telescopes.

The cosmic event in question is a black hole where they have observed it ripping apart a star, roughly the size of our sun, and swallowing it whole. This is also known as a tidal disruption event and like we said, this is the first time that NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite managed to capture the detailed timeline from the beginning to the very end.

While we can’t tell what it actually looks like in real-life, they have put together an animation/simulation that gives us a rough idea of what it could look like if we observed it ourselves, and we have to say that it is pretty crazy! According to Chris Kochanek, a professor of astronomy at Ohio State, “This was really a combination of both being good and being lucky, and sometimes that’s what you need to push the science forward.”

The reason why luck is needed because in order for a tidal disruption event to occur, stars need to be very close to a black hole. Scientists have estimated that this kind of event only happens once every 10,000 to 100,000 years. According to Kochanek, “Imagine that you are standing on top of a skyscraper downtown, and you drop a marble off the top, and you are trying to get it to go down a hole in a manhole cover. It’s harder than that.”

Insane Video Shows A Black Hole Swallowing A Star The Size Of Our Sun , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

For the longest time ever, one of the defining features of Apple’s MacBook laptops was its glowing logo on the lid of the device. However, in recent years, Apple has decided to drop the design completely. If you did like the idea of such a design, you might be interested to learn that it could be making a comeback, but not for the MacBook, but for the iPhone.

This is according to a recently-discovered patent in which it has been revealed that Apple is exploring the idea of maybe turning the Apple logo on the back of the iPhone into a glowing LED which can be used to let users know they have notifications. The concept of notification lights aren’t new and have been around for years, where devices as old as the original BlackBerry handsets used to have them.

However, according to the patent, it won’t just be a simple LED that blinks. Based on the patent, it reveals how Apple plans to incorporate such a feature through the use of a transparent layer along with an adjustable optical component. This would affect how the light will appear through that layer, where apparently it will give users several different options to choose from.

That being said, before you get too excited, know that Apple files a ton of patents from time to time. We imagine that a lot of times those patents are filed simply to protect the company’s interests, with it being hard to tell if any of them might actually come to pass.

Apple Logo On Future iPhones Could Double As A Notification Light , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

Hurricane Lorenzo has set records as it blasts its way through the central Atlantic, becoming a category 5 hurricane on Saturday night before weakening back down to category 3 status by Sunday evening, CNN reported.

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