US EditionWandering black hole caught on camera stalking and eating a star
- Astronomers observed a wandering supermassive black hole consuming a star in a tidal disruption event called AT2024tvd about 600 million light-years away from Earth in a galaxy's outskirts.
- This event occurred because the black hole, with an estimated mass of one million Suns, is offset roughly 2,600 light-years from its host galaxy's center, likely due to a past galaxy merger or gravitational interactions.
- The detection involved multiple facilities including the Zwicky Transient Facility, Hubble, and Chandra observatories, revealing the black hole's presence through a bright burst visible across the electromagnetic spectrum.
- Ryan Chornock highlighted that tidal disruption events are a valuable tool for discovering massive black holes that might otherwise remain undetected.
- This finding suggests that upcoming astronomical surveys could identify additional black holes moving through galaxies, offering new insights into black hole behavior and the processes involved in galaxy mergers.
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The last years of the life of a star that orbits very close to a black hole, studied astronomers. As it has to “live”
A star from the LEDA 3091738 galaxy of 300 million light years approached too much of the supermassive black hole in the center of this galaxy and, according to astronomers, in less than 6 years it could be completely destroyed by this, transmit the moon Space.com.
Wandering Supermassive Black Hole Caught Devouring a Star
Astronomers have captured a rare tidal disruption event (TDE), revealing a supermassive black hole roaming through space and tearing apart a star 600 million light-years from Earth. Unlike typical TDEs, this black hole wasn’t at the center of its galaxy. Instead, it was drifting about 2,600 light-years from the core—an unusual find that has shocked scientists. Star’s Violent End The event, named AT2024tvd, created a brilliant flash of radiation …
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