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A rogue, middle-mass black hole has been spotted disrupting an orbiting star in the halo of a distant galaxy, and it's all thanks to the observing powers of the Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra ...
This is the first confirmed case of a star that survived an encounter with a supermassive black hole and came back for more.
A death-defying star survived destruction by a ravenous supermassive black hole in a tidal disruption event, and came back to let the cosmic titan take another bite!
A black hole tore into the same star twice, revealing that some stars may survive tidal disruption events and repeatedly flare.
A supermassive black hole tears up a star in a tidal disruption event, pulling gas away and creating an accretion disk. - Ralf Crawford illustration When a star strays too close to a supermassive ...
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The purple blob depicts X-ray emission from a compact star cluster. The X-rays are produced by an intermediate-mass black hole tearing apart a star.
At 225 solar masses, this gargantuan merger of two black holes challenges our thinking on these famously elusive objects.
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A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT). Credit; ESO ...