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Astronomers have performed radio observations of WTP 14adeqka—a tidal disruption event discovered a decade ago. Results of the observational campaign, published August 22 on the pre-print server arXiv ...

An international team of astronomers has investigated a short-lived optical flare designated AT2022zod. As a result, they found evidence indicating that this flare is an unusual tidal disruption event ...

"This is a promising sign that there continues to be new and exciting avenues to explore tidal disruption events and use them as probes of supermassive black holes." When you purchase through links on ...

Astronomers at MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer through the dust of nearby galaxies and into the aftermath of a black hole's stellar ...

Artist’s interpretation of two massive black holes (MBHs) within a galaxy. A tidal disruption event unfolds around the MBH that resides away from the galactic center and matter from a disrupted star ...

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Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star ventures too close to a supermassive black hole and is gravitationally torn apart by tidal forces. The resulting stellar debris forms an accretion disc ...

"Studying this tidal disruption event is going to be very important for learning what happens when more mass is thrown onto a black hole." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

When a star moves around a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in a close elliptical orbit, it gets partially tidally disrupted every time it reaches the pericenter, emitting a series of luminous flares, ...