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  • NASA’s Hubble Spots Runaway Black Hole Devouring a Star 600 Million Light-Years From Earth

    05/11/2025 4:04:17 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 15 replies
    The Debrief ^ | May 09, 2025 | Staff
    CREDIT: NASA, ESA, STScI, Yuhan Yao (UC Berkeley); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) ************************************************************** A traveling black hole stalking the cosmos for stellar prey recently revealed itself to NASA telescopes in a tidal disruption event (TDE), shredding and swallowing a star in a radioactive burst. With its brilliant flash, the TDE AT2024tvd lit up several observatories, including NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-Ray Observatory, and the NRAO Very Large Array. The TDE event took place 600 million light-years from Earth, allowing astronomers a new glimpse at black hole physics to be published in a future issue of The Astrophysical Journal...
  • Undetected Black Hole Reveals Itself by Violently Shredding a Star That Strayed Too Close

    11/11/2022 7:39:15 AM PST · by Red Badger · 11 replies
    Scitech Daily ^ | NOVEMBER 10, 2022 | By UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - SANTA CRUZ
    Star Spaghettification Black Hole - This animation depicts a star experiencing spaghettification as it’s sucked in by a black hole during a ‘tidal disruption event’. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Scientists hope to improve their understanding of the growth of supermassive black holes in massive galaxies by studying intermediate-mass black holes. After lurking undetected in a dwarf galaxy, an intermediate-mass black hole revealed itself to astronomers when it gobbled up an unlucky star that strayed too close. Known as a “tidal disruption event” or TDE, the violent shredding of the star produced a flare of radiation that briefly outshone the combined stellar...
  • A Black Hole Burps out Material, Years After Feasting on a Star

    10/13/2022 5:24:51 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 9 replies
    Universe Today ^ | OCTOBER 13, 2022 BY | MATT WILLIAMS
    Periodically, these gravitational behemoths will devoir stars and other objects in their vicinity, releasing tremendous amounts of light and radiation. In October 2018, astronomers witnessed one such event when observing a black hole in a galaxy located 665 million light-years from Earth....another team from the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics noticed something unprecedented when they examined the same black hole three years later. As they explained in a recent study, the black hole was shining very brightly because it was ejecting...leftover material from the star at half the speed of light. [T]he team observed the outburst while revisiting data...