All articles tagged with #tidal disruption event
Astronomers observed 'the Whippet,' a powerful Tidal Disruption Event where a super-sized star was shredded by a black hole, releasing energy equivalent to 400 billion suns, providing new insights into black hole behavior and star destruction processes.
Astronomers observed a star being torn apart by a supermassive black hole in galaxy LEDA 145386, providing the most detailed evidence yet of frame-dragging, a prediction of general relativity, as the black hole's rotation twists spacetime around it.
Astronomers have directly observed a whirlpool in spacetime caused by a rapidly spinning black hole, providing the first empirical evidence of the Lense–Thirring precession, a phenomenon where a spinning black hole drags spacetime around with it, confirming a long-standing theoretical prediction.
A supermassive black hole at 10 billion light-years away produced a record-breaking flare, shining brighter than 10 trillion suns, likely caused by devouring a star at least 30 times the sun's mass, marking the most powerful and distant energy flare ever observed from such an object.
Scientists observed the largest and most distant black hole flare to date, occurring in a galaxy 10 billion light years away, where a black hole about 500 million times the mass of the sun consumed a star 30 times the sun's mass, resulting in a flare shining with the light of 10 trillion suns.
Astronomers observed an extraordinary off-center tidal disruption event (TDE) in a galaxy 650 million light-years away, where a black hole tore apart a star and produced unexpected delayed radio outflows, challenging previous understanding of black hole behavior and suggesting the black hole may be an intermediate mass black hole wandering outside the galaxy's center.
Researchers have created an animation depicting the suspected intermediate-mass black hole HLX-1 ripping apart a star, providing insights into these elusive objects that bridge stellar and supermassive black holes, and highlighting their importance in understanding black hole evolution.
A rogue intermediate-mass black hole in a distant galaxy has been observed disrupting a star, with conflicting data on whether the star was completely destroyed or just partially stripped, highlighting the challenges in studying these elusive objects and the potential for future discoveries with upcoming sky surveys.
NASA's Hubble and Chandra observatories have identified a potential intermediate-mass black hole, NGC 6099 HLX-1, located in a galaxy 450 million light-years away, which is likely consuming a star, providing insights into black hole formation and evolution.
Researchers observed a star that survived a close encounter with a supermassive black hole and was torn apart twice, challenging previous assumptions that such events are always full disruptions, suggesting that some flares may be partial disruptions with the star surviving and returning for more.
Astronomers observed a rare tidal disruption event (TDE) where a supermassive black hole in a merging galaxy tore apart a star, producing unusual light and spectral features, providing new insights into black hole-star interactions during galaxy mergers.
Astronomers observed a rare tidal disruption event (TDE) called AT 2022wtn, where a supermassive black hole in a merging galaxy tore apart a star, producing unusual light and spectral features, providing insights into black hole-star interactions during galaxy mergers.
Astronomers observed a rare tidal disruption event (TDE) where a supermassive black hole in a merging galaxy tore apart a star, producing unusual light and spectral features, providing new insights into black hole-star interactions during galaxy mergers.
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has observed a supermassive black hole tearing apart a star and using its debris to bombard another object, possibly a star or smaller black hole. This discovery links tidal disruption events (TDEs) and quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs), providing new insights into black hole environments. The event, named AT2019qiz, was detected 210 million light-years away and suggests that QPEs may occur when objects collide with debris disks left by TDEs. This research could aid future gravitational wave observatories in studying black holes.
Astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole in the distant galaxy SDSS1335+0728 transition from an inactive to an active state, emitting various types of radiation over four years. This unprecedented event, possibly due to a tidal disruption event or a new phenomenon, provides new insights into the processes that fuel active galactic nuclei and the evolution of supermassive black holes.