Death of a star reveals midsize black hole lurking in a dwarf galaxy - EurekAlert
An intermediate-mass black hole lurking undetected in a dwarf galaxy revealed itself to astronomers when it gobbled up an unlucky star that strayed too close. The shredding of the star, known as a “tidal disruption event” or TDE, produced a flare of radiation…
image: Astronomers discovered a star being ripped apart by a black hole in the galaxy SDSS J152120.07+140410.5, 850 million light years away. Researchers pointed NASAs Hubble Space Telescope to exami… [+5075 chars]
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