The destruction of stars by supermassive black holes appears to be rarer than predicted. A candidate stellar disruption in a kind of galaxy that is usually obscured may explain why.
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Guillochon, J. Black holes: Crime in search of a crime scene. Nat Astron 1, 0068 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-017-0068
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