Unraveling the Mystery of Runaway Black Holes and Their Feeding Behavior.

Astronomers have observed streams of star matter that collided with each other and came full circle around black holes, providing a direct look at the early stages of disk-forming around black holes. The team studying a tidal disruption event called AT 2020mot found strong evidence for the theory that the light is from star matter in the disk-forming stage. The team also calculated how polarized the detected light is and found that the light was polarized to an extraordinary amount (25%). The highly polarized light is due to the shocks created from multiple colliding streams of stellar material.