A team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has reported the observation of an exceptionally rare “wandering” black hole—detected far from its galaxy’s center, at an offset of roughly 30,000 light-years. The culprit is a tidal disruption event (TDE), a flare that ignites when a star passes too close to a supermassive […]
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